MATH 520 INTERMEDIATE LOGIC Line no: 43274

Instructor: Gábor Hetyei
Office: 602 Snow, Phone: 864-3005, E-mail: hetyei@math.ukans.edu
Office hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 2:00-3:00 pm,
or by appointment.
Text: The Language of First Order Logic, Jon Barwise & John Etchemendy, CSLI Lecture Notes, 1993. This book comes with the program Tarski's World, upon which much of the homework will be based.
Prerequisite: EECS 310, or MATH 450, or MATH 588, or MATH 590.
Three hours credit
Topics:
Propositional Logic: the alphabet, satisfiability and logical truth, methods of proof, formal proofs.
Quantifiers: syntax, semantics, methods of proof, mixed quantifiers, paraphrasing English.
Applications: Set theory and induction.
Advanced topics: Horn sentences, resolution, Skolemization and unification.
There may be extra time towards the end of the semester to add topics not covered in the text.
Test Dates:
Test I Monday September 20, 12:30-1:20 pm
Test II Monday November 1, 12:30-1:20 pm
Final Exam Tuesday December 14, 11:30 am-2:30 pm
Homework: Homework will be handed in nearly every week, and will be usually due on Monday. While much of the homework will be based on the program Tarski's World, I will not ask you to hand in discs or send files by e-mail. I will make an effort to regularly post the homework on the webpage http://www.math.ukans.edu/~hetyei/courses/520/hw.html .  In case of discrepancy, what I said in class is "official".
Evaluation: Grades will be based on: 25% for the homework, 21 % for each of the tests, and 33 % for the final.
Class meeting: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 12:30-1:20 pm in 4076 Wescoe.
Homepage: http://www.math.ukans.edu/~hetyei/courses/520/