MA482 FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS (3 Cr.)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Prerequisite:
Permission of instructor.
Course Description
Informal axiomatic set theory, cardinal and ordinal arithmetic, transfinite induction,
and issues in the philosophy of mathematics.
Course Content Outline
- Axiomatic Method
- Description and applications
- Consistency, independence and completeness of an axiomatic system
- Theory of Sets
- Background
- Russell paradox
- Relations and operations
- Cardinality: finite, ordinary infinite, Dedikind infinite
- Countable and uncountable sets
- Ordering of countable numbers
- Ordinal Numbers
- Order types
- General well ordered set
- Choice Axiom, Well Ordering Theorem, and Comparability
- The System of Real Numbers
- Complete ordered field
- Operations
- Peano axioms
- Complex number system
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