Logische technieken 2001 (Logical Techniques)
- Week 1; Recapitulation natural deduction for propositional logic. Introduction of
predicate logic with its syntax and a natural deduction system for it.
Treatment of inductive proofs, applied to the natural numbers and to inductive
structures in general, like formulas, terms, proofs, et cetera. Tarski's Truth
definition.
- Week 2;
Semantics for first order logic. Some model theoretic notions: equivalence relation,
congruence relation, homomorphism, isomorphism.
Some constructions with f.o. models:
cartesian product and quotient. Applications: Chinese remainder theorem, construction
of the integers out of the positive integers, construction of the rationals out
of the integers.
- Week 3;
The completeness theorem for first order predicate logic; Henkin construction.
Applications of the compactness theorem. k-colorability of a graph. The
principle of overflow.
- Week 4;
- Week 5;
- Week 6;
Joost Joosten
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