Logic and Set Theory
โ Scribed by I. B. Leader, ed. Dexter Chua
- Publisher
- University of Cambridge
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 70
- Series
- Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Part II Lecture Notes
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Introduction
Propositional calculus
Propositions
Semantic entailment
Syntactic implication
Well-orderings and ordinals
Well-orderings
New well-orderings from old
Ordinals
Successors and limits
Ordinal arithmetic
Normal functions
Posets and Zorn's lemma
Partial orders
Zorn's lemma and axiom of choice
Bourbaki-Witt theorem
Predicate logic
Language of predicate logic
Semantic entailment
Syntactic implication
Peano Arithmetic
Completeness and categoricity
Set theory
Axioms of set theory
Properties of ZF
Picture of the universe
Cardinals
Definitions
Cardinal arithmetic
Incompleteness
Index
โฆ Subjects
maths; mathematics; math; advanced; college; university; higher; further; pure; applied; logic; sets; set theory; axiomatic; classical
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