CS313K Logic, Sets, and Functions

Schedule Details

Spring, 2008

From the catalog

Sets, relations, functions, sentential and predicate logic, proof techniques, algorithms, and elementary metatheory. Mathematically oriented. Prerequisite: Three years of high school mathematics. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour a week for one semester.

Note: This course is required of computer sciences majors. Typically, few except computer sciences majors take this course.

Textbook

We will closely follow the text of Robert L. Causey, Logic, Sets, and Recursion, Second Edition, 2006, Jones and Bartlett, ISBN 0-7637-3784-4. 512+ix pages. NOTE: this is the second edition, not the older revised edition with supplement. We will proceed through the Causey text in the order of the Table of Contents, leaving off some sections at the ends of some chapters. Thus the order of study is Sentential Calculus, Set Theory, Number Theory, and finally Predicate Calculus.

See Boyer's list of topics for more details.