SUBJECT
Title
Descriptive set theory
Type of instruction
lecture + practical
Level
master
Faculty
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.