The impact of Mathematics in our RDBMS world

We sometimes forget the impact of early mathematicians. Take for example John Venn who introduced the Venn diagram in 1881.

This is fundamental for Set Theory, and also fundamental for SQL, the basis of retrieving data in a RDBMS.

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