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Academic Year 2001/2002


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 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002


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