Calendar of topics and assignments

MTH 355, Fall 2009

Last modified: Mon Aug 31 15:31:57 EDT 2009

Date Homework Reading Subject
Sep 01 Intro, syllabus, textbook, policies
Sep 03 1.0-1.1 A formal language; translation
Sep 08 1.2 truth assignments
Sep 10 HW1 proofs in the language; strategies
Sep 11 Last day to add classes
Sep 15 1.3 parsing a wff
Sep 17 1.4 induction and recursion
Sep 22 proofs about the language; soundness of proof system
Sep 24 1.5 connectives
Sep 25 Last day to drop classes, change grading option, switch sections, add independent study
Sep 29 HW1 due; HW2 1.6 circuits
Oct 01 1.7 compactness
Oct 06 completeness
Oct 08 1.7 effectiveness, enumerability, decidability, etc.
Oct 13 2.0-2.1 A larger formal language; translation
Oct 15 2.2 truth in a model
Oct 20 HW2 due 2.2-2.3 truth in a model
Oct 22 2.4 proofs in the language
Oct 27 Research day: no classes
Oct 29 HW3 2.4 proofs in the language
Oct 30 Last day to withdraw from classes
Nov 03 HW1 resubmissions due 2.5 soundness and completeness; compactness
Nov 05 2.5 soundness and completeness; compactness
Nov 10 HW3 due 2.6 models of theories
Nov 12 HW4 2.6 models of theories
Nov 17 3.0-3.1 natural number arithmetic
Nov 19 3.3 finitely axiomatizable arithmetic
Nov 24 3.3 finitely axiomatizable arithmetic
Nov 26 Thanksgiving: no classes
Dec 01 3.4 Gödel numbering
Dec 03 HW4 due; HW5 3.5 Incompleteness and undecidability
Dec 08 3.6 Recursive functions
Dec 10 catch up and review
Dec 15 HW5 due final exam period, 1:00-3:00