Date Assignment Reading Location Subject
Sept. 3
    HHE 105 Introduction, administrivia, software, etc.
Sept. 5
HW1 pp. 1-25 HHE 110 Using TW and GG
Sept. 8

pp. 26-40 HHE 105 Logic, artificial languages, and FOL
Sept. 10
pp. 41-53 HHE 105 Validity, soundness, and proof
Sept. 12
pp. 54-66 HHE 110 Formal vs. informal proofs; using Fitch
Sept. 12 Deadline to add courses
Sept. 15
    HHE 105 Practice with proofs
Sept. 17
pp. 67-76 HHE 105 Boolean connectives
Sept. 19 HW2 pp. 77-92 HHE 110 Playing games for truth
Sept. 22 HW1 due pp. 93-105 HHE 105 Tautology and contradiction; truth tables
Sept. 24
pp. 106-116 HHE 105 Logical vs. tautological ___
Sept. 26
pp. 117-126 HHE 105 Transformations on logical sentences
Sept. 29 Deadline to drop courses
Sept. 29
    HHE 105 Transformations on logical sentences; review high school algebra
Oct. 1
    HHE 110 Compositional semantics; defining a language
Oct. 3
HW2 due   HHE 105 Discuss homework 1
Oct. 6 Yom Kippur; no classes
Oct. 8 HW3 assigned pp. 127-141 HHE 105 Proof by cases, indirect proof, and subproofs
Oct. 10 I'm out of town; read textbook, or practice in lab, or whatever
Oct. 13   pp. 142-166 HHE 105 Formal proofs in Fitch: ^, v, negation, and subproofs
Oct. 15   pp. 167-175 HHE 105 Strategy and tactics of formal proofs
Oct. 17     HHE 110 Practice with formal proofs
Oct. 20
  pp. 176-190 HHE 105 Conditionals
Oct. 22   pp. 198-205 HHE 105 Informal proofs using conditionals
Oct. 24
HW3 due pp. 206-224 HHE 110 Formal proofs using conditionals
Oct. 27
  HHE 105 Midterm exam
Oct. 29 HW4 pp. 225-233 HHE 105 Quantifiers
Oct. 31
    HHE 105 Discuss midterm exam
Oct. 31
Deadline to withdraw from courses
Nov. 3

pp. 234-243 HHE 105 Semantics and translation of quantifiers
Nov. 5

pp. 243-250 HHE 105 Translation practice
Nov. 7
HW4 due pp. 251-256 HHE 110 Practice with quantifiers
Nov. 10

pp. 257-266 HHE 105 Working with quantifiers
Nov. 12
pp. 266-279 HHE 105 First-order, logical, and tautological ___
Nov. 14
HW5 pp. 280-288 HHE 110 Practice with quantifiers
Nov. 17   pp. 289-299 HHE 105 Multiple quantifiers
Nov. 19
pp. 300-310 HHE 105 Translation involving multiple quantifiers
Nov. 21
  pp. 311-318 HHE 110 Practice with multiple quantifiers
Nov. 24
  pp. 319-329 HHE 105 Informal proofs with quantifiers
Nov. 26 HW5 due; HW6 pp. 329-338 HHE 105 Proofs with multiple quantifiers
Nov. 28 Thanksgiving break -- no classes
Dec. 1

pp. 342-352 HHE 105 Formal proofs with quantifiers
Dec. 3
  pp. 352-363 HHE 105 Formal proofs with quantifiers
Dec. 5


HHE 110 Practice building formal proofs with quantifiers
Dec. 8
HW6 due; HW7 pp. 442-452 HHE 105 Mathematical induction
Dec. 10

pp. 453-457 HHE 105 Proofs by mathematical induction
Dec. 12     HHE 105 Catch up and review
Dec. 15 HW7 due Study Day; no classes
Dec. 19 Final exam, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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