SUBJECT

Title

Descriptive set theory

Type of instruction

lecture + practical

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

4+3

Recommended in

Semesters 1-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

Basics of general topology. The Baire property. The tranfinite hierarchy of Borel sets. The Baire function classes. The Suslin operation. Analytic and coanalytic sets. Suslin spaces. Projective sets.

Readings
  • K. Kuratowski: Topology I, Academic Press, 1967.
  • A. Kechris: Classical descriptive set theory, Springer, 1998.