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MATH 6730: Set TheorySpring 2019MWF 2:00-2:50 pm, ECCR 116Syllabusor its recently expanded and reorganized version: Notes on Set Theory by Donald Monk (available at http://euclid.colorado.edu/~monkd/full.pdf)
Supplementary Texts:
Set Theory by Kenneth Kunen
(pdf file for early editions can be found online) Course description: The topics we will discuss include cardinal and ordinal arithmetic, the axiom of choice, infinite combinatorics (trees, clubs and stationary sets, generalizations of Ramsey's theorem), models of set theory, and the independence of the continuum hypothesis. Prerequisites: MATH 4000/5000 (Foundations of Mathematics) and MATH 4730/5730 (Set Theory)
Assignments:
If you are enrolled for a letter grade, you will be asked to solve homework
problems,
which will be assigned every other week, starting the second week.
You will be asked to work on the problems in teams of 2-3, and submit the
solutions in pdf. When in final form, the solutions will be posted.
Different teams will be assigned different problems, and the teams will
change with each assignment. You should read your classmates' solutions.
Getting Help:
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holiday,
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(preferably within the first two weeks of class),
and provide documentation.
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