General information

Lectures: TR 1:00-2:25, Linde 310
Office: Linde 308
Office hours: M 1:00-3:00, or by appointment
E-mail: vidnyanz_at^caltech dot edu
Notes, homeworks
Grading: based on bi-weekly homeworks
Textbook: Typed lecture notes



Topics

01.04: Naive set theory and Russell's paradox
01.06: Cardinalities
01.11: Wellorders
01.13: Ordinals
01.18: Transfinite induction and recursion
01.20: Transfinite induction and recursion
01.25: Ordinal arithmetic, Goodstein's theorem
01.27: Cumulative hierarchy
02.01: The Axiom of Choice and its consequences
02.03: Wellordering theorem
02.08: Banach-Tarski paradox
02.10: Banach-Tarski paradox
02.15: Alephs
02.17: Cardinal arithmetic
02.22: CH and its equivalence
02.24: Clubs and Fodor's lemma
03.01: Reflection
03.03: AC in L
03.08: GCH in L