CSIE 5111: Introduction to Mathematical Logic

       

Instructor

Venue and time

  • Friday, 10:30-13:00, room CSIE 104.

Administration

  • For correspondence, use my CSIE email: tonytan@csie.ntu.edu.tw
  • All notes and homeworks (in both pdf and tex files) will be posted here.
  • All the announcements will also be posted here, as well as in the bulletin of this course in CEIBA.

Teaching assistants

  • 林廷衛 (Lin Tingwei), r08922089@ntu.edu.tw, r08922089@csie.ntu.edu.tw, room 401.
  • If needed, you may try to arrange another time slot with TA directly.

Recommended textbooks

  • A Mathematical Introduction to Logic by H. Enderton.
  • A Concise Introduction to Mathematical Logic by W. Rautenberg.
  • Mathematical logic by H.-D. Ebbinghaus, J. Flum and W. Thomas.

Syllabus (tentative)

Part Week Dates Lesson Remark
A I 6 Mar. Lesson 1. Preliminaries --
B II 13 Mar. Lesson 2. Compactness theorem for propositional calculus --
III 20 Mar. Lesson 3. Proof system in propositional calculus HW 1
IV 27 Mar. Lesson 4. Completeness of propositional calculus --
V 3 Apr. -- --
C VI 10 Apr. Lesson 5. First-order logic (FO) part I HW 1 due (on Friday)
VII 17 Apr. Lesson 6. First-order logic (FO) part II --
VIII 24 Apr. Lesson 7. Logical consequences and theories --
IX 1 May Lesson 8. Proof system in FO HW 2
X 8 May -- --
D XI 15 May Lesson 9. Gödel's completeness theorem --
XII 22 May Lesson 10. Löwenheim-Skolem theorem and categorical sets HW 2 due (on Friday)
E XIII 29 May Lesson 11. Gödel's incompleteness theorem HW 3
XIV 5 Jun. Lesson 12. Decision problems in FO --
XV 12 Jun. -- --
XVI 19 Jun. -- HW 3 due (on Friday)