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Academic Year 2000/2001
Set Theory
MATH 241 SP
Posets, losets and wosets; ordinal and cardinal numbers; cardinal arithmetic; theorems of Cantor and Schroeder-Bernstein; cofinality; the Axiom of Choice and (some) other axioms of ZFC; applications to N, R, and their
subsets. Some infinitary
combinatorics.
MAJOR READINGS
Kaplansky, SET THEORY AND METRIC SPACES, Chelsea Publishing Company
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Frequent homework, one one-hour examination, one final examination.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NSM MATH
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
(MATH121 AND MATH122) OR MATH125
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Linton,Fred E J
- Times: ..T.T.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: SCIE141
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 30)
- SR. major: 10 Jr. major: 10
- SR. non-major: 2 Jr. non-major: 2 SO: 4 FR: 2
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Quantitative Reasoning
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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