General References

Adams, Douglas. 1980. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Harmony Books (1st U.S. edition). ISBN 0-517-54209-9.

Babbage, Charles. For information, contact the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

Logic

Bolc, Leonard and Borowik, Piotr. 1992. Many-Valued Logics. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-55926-4. This book has a whole chapter devoted to three valued logic systems.

Boole, George. 1854, 1951. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1854. New York: Dover Books, 1951. The original is a rare collector's piece, but you can get a reprint of the original 1854 edition (Dover Books, 1951). ISBN 0-486-60028-9

Celko, Joe. 1992. "SQL Explorer: Voting Systems." DBMS Magazine 11.

Mathematical Techniques

Gardner, Martin. 1983. Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements. New York: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0-716-71589-9.

Huff, Darrell, and Geis, Irving (illustrator). 1993 (reissue). How to Lie with Statistics. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-31072-8.

Melzak, Z. A. 1983. Bypasses: A Simple Approach to Complexity. New York: Wiley InterScience. ISBN 0-471-86854-X.

Mrdalj, Stevan; Vujovic, Branislav; and Jovanovic, Vladan. 1996. "SQL Matrix Processing." Database Programming and Design (August).

Random Numbers

Bays, Carter, and Sharp, W. E. 1992. "Improved Random Numbers for Your Personal Computer or Workstation." Geobyte 7(2):25.

Carta, David G. 1990. "Two Fast Implementations of the 'Minimal Standard' Random Number Generator." Communications of the ACM 33(1):87.

Chambers, W. G., and Dai, Z. D. 1991.