Intermediate Symbolic LogicThis course will be taught from Boolos, Burgess, and Jeffrey, Computability and Logic The readings and topics we will cover are (in order) the following: Chapter 1 - enumerability Chapter 2 - uncountability Chapter 9 - syntax of first-order logic Chapter 10 - semantics of first-order logic Handout on deduction Chapter 6 - primitive recursive functions Chapter 7 - recursive functions and relations Chapter 15 - computability and logic Chapter 16 - representation of recursive functions in logic Chapter 17 - the first incompleteness theorem Homework: For Monday, August 29: Exercise 1.3 For Wednesday, September 7: Exercises 2.8 and 2.9 For Monday, September 19: Exercise 9.5 For Monday, September 26: Exercise 10.6 For Monday, October 3: The Negation Theorem, 3.2.4 in the updated handout (p. 15) For Monday, October 10: nothing For Monday, October 17: Exercise 6.5 (not graded - just for evaluation) For Monday, October 24: Exercises 7.5 and 7.6 For Monday, October 31: Exercise 15.5 For Monday, November 7: nothing For Monday, November 14: Exercise 16.17 For Monday, November 21: Exercise 16.16 For Monday, November 28: nothing Sample solutions to exercises. |