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Gábor Hetyei
Office: 602 Snow, Phone: 864-3005, E-mail: hetyei@math.ukans.edu
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Office hours:
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Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:30 am, Wednesdays
11:00-12:00 am,
or by appointment.
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| 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.
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Prerequisite:
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EECS 310, or MATH 450, or MATH 588, or MATH 590.
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Three hours credit
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Topics:
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Propositional Logic:
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the alphabet, satisfiability and logical truth, methods of proof, formal
proofs.
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Quantifiers:
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syntax, semantics, methods of proof, mixed quantifiers, paraphrasing English.
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Applications:
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Set theory and induction.
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Advanced topics:
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Horn sentences, resolution, Skolemization and unification.
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Probably there will be extra time in the second half of the semester
to add topics not covered in the text.
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Test Dates:
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Midterm
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Thursday March 11, 11:00 am-12:20 pm |
Final Exam |
Wednesday May 19, 11:30 am-2:30 pm |
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| Homework: |
Homework will be handed in nearly every week, due on Tuesday.
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.
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| Evaluation: |
Grades will be based on: 25% for the homework, 25
% for the midterm, and 50 % for the final.
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Class meeting: |
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 am-12:20 pm in 4076 Wescoe.
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Homepage: |
http://www.math.ukans.edu/~hetyei/html/520/
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