MHF 4203 (3216) and MHF 5207 (3217) Spring 2012 Calendar (may be revised)

Monday Wednesday Friday
Jan 9:

Prerequisites and preliminaries
11: 13
drop/add ends
II.4 Polish notation
16

ML King Day
18

II.4 Polish notation, unique readability
20

no class
23

II.5 lexicon for predicate logic, formulas
25

II.5 scope in formulas
27

II.7 assignment of variables
30

Feb 1
II.7: models
3 (withdraw w/ 25% refund)
Exam 1: Chapters 0 and II.1-II.7
6

II.7-8 |= and |-
8

II.8 intro compactness
10

II.8 reduct, substructure
13

II.8-9 propositional tautologies
15

II.10: axioms, modus ponens
17

Discuss exercise II.7.19, Lemma II.8.15
20

II.11: strategies for proof
22

II.11: quantifier rules
24

II.12: Herbrand model
27
II.12: quotient structures,
maximal consistent theories
29

II.12: witnesses and maximal consistency
Mar 2

11.12 Completeness Theorem
5
Spring Break
7
Spring Break
9
Spring Break
12

Review
14
Exam 2
16
A Herbrand model of the rationals
19
Introduction to computability
21
Examples of finite automata
23
Turing machine basics
26

Turing machine examples
28
computable and semicomputable
30
universal machines, halting problem
Apr 2

5.3 recursive functions
4
Recursive functions
6 (Good Friday,
Passover begins Apr 7)

Recursive relations, decidability
9
decidability
11
Godel numbering
13 (drop by petition,
Passover ends April 14)

Incompleteness theorem
16

Incompleteness again
18
Review for Exam 3
20
Exam 3
23
Review
25
Review
27
reading/review
30
May 3 (Thurs) 5:30-7:30 pm: Final 4

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