Math 430: Formal Logic |
Instructor:
Matthias
Aschenbrenner
E-mail address:
Homepage: http://www.math.uic.edu/~maschenb
Office: 417
SEO (notice change of office!)
Office Phone: (312) 413-2149
Office Hours: MWF 10-11am,
or by appointment.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CS 202 or grade of C or better in MCS 261 or grade of C or better in MATH 320.
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1. Pure logic: Syntax and semantics of first-order languages. The Completeness Theorem.
2. Basic model theory: Löwenheim-Skolem Theorems. Compactness Theorem. Elementary equivalence.
3. Fundamentals of the theory of computability: Enumerability and decidability. Register machines. The halting problem. Undecidability of first-order logic. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems.
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Problem
Set 1, due September 17. Solutions
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Set 2, due September 24. Solutions.
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Set 3, due October 11. Solutions.
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Set 4, due November 1. Solutions.
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Set 5, due November 29. Solutions.
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Set 6, due December 3.
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The final exam will take place
on Tuesday,
December 7, 8:00-10:00am, in 219
Taft Hall.
A review session for the final will be held on Monday, December 6,
4:00-6:00pm, in 636
SEO.
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Course grades are roughly computed as follows:
% of points | Grade |
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90-100 | A |
80-89 | B |
70-79 | C |
60-69 | D |
below 60 | E |
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Click below to learn more about some of our logic heroes:
Wilhelm
Ackermann
Aristotle
Paul
Bernays
George
Boole
Georg
Cantor
Alonzo
Church
Paul
Cohen
René
Descartes
Richard
Dedekind
Adolf
Fraenkel
Gottlob
Frege
Gerhard
Gentzen
Kurt
Gödel
Jacques
Herbrand
David
Hilbert
Stephen
Kleene
Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz
Ramon
Llull
Leopold
Löwenheim
Augustus
de Morgan
John
von Neumann
Guiseppe
Peano
Emil
Post
Abraham
Robinson
Bertrand
Russell
Thoralf
Skolem
Alfred
Tarski
Alan
Turing
Alfred
North Whitehead
Ernst
Zermelo
Last
modified 12/01/04.