Lectures: Tu, Th 4:00-5:40,   room NAC 

Lecturer: Vladimir Shpilrain  Office: NAC 4118b  Phone: (212) 650-5158
e-mail: shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu   web page:  http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/

Office hours: Tu, Th 3:00-4:00 or by appointment

Homework: Homework problems will be distributed in class once a week.

Textbook: Karel Hrbacek and Thomas Jech, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition, CRC Press, 1999.

Material to be covered : Axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory; relations functions, equivalences and orderings; cardinal numbers and cardinal arithmetic; well-ordered sets; ordinal numbers, transfinite induction and recursion; the Axiom of Choice and the Continuum Hypothesis.

Approximate grading weights:
 
Homework: 10 %
3 term exams: 30 % each

 
There will be no early or make-up  tests.