Courses of Study 2011-2012 
    
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MATH 4810 - [Mathematical Logic]

(crosslisted)
(also PHIL 4310 ) (MQR)
Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: MATH 2220  or MATH 2230  and preferably some additional course involving proofs in mathematics, computer science, or philosophy. Next offered 2012-2013.

Staff.

First course in mathematical logic providing precise definitions of the language of mathematics and the notion of proof (propositional and predicate logic). The completeness theorem says that we have all the rules of proof we could ever have. The Gödel incompleteness theorem says that they are not enough to decide all statements even about arithmetic. The compactness theorem exploits the finiteness of proofs to show that theories have unintended (nonstandard) models. Possible additional topics: the mathematical definition of an algorithm and the existence of noncomputable functions; the basics of set theory to cardinality and the uncountability of the real numbers.



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