I agree. I think Frank is simply prejudiced toward his way of thinking about math. Both relational (normalized) databases and OO databases can be mathematically well-founded. I don't know, but suspect, they're even dual.
On 7/23/20 3:08 PM, Edward Angel wrote: > There really does not need to be a difference, Coordinate free geometry is > much like vector analysis. You have the equivalent of axioms and I suppose if > you so desire you can bring in formal proofs and all the other concepts you > like. But what it does for me is give a unified view of linear algebra, odes > and geometry as just different instantiations of the same objects and their > methods. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/