SUBJECT

Title

Mathematical logic

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semesters 1-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

Predicate calculus and first order languages. Truth and satisfiability. Completeness. Prenex norm form. Modal logic, Kripke type models. Model theory: elementary equivalence, elementary submodels. Tarski-Vaught criterion, Löwenheim-Skolem theorem. Ultraproducts.

Gödel’s compactness theorem.  Preservation theorems. Beth’s interpolation theorem. Types omitting theorem. Partial recursive and recursive functions. Gödel coding. Church thesis. Theorems of  Church and Gödel. Formula expressing the consistency of a formula set. Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem. Axiom systems, completeness, categoricity, axioms of set theory. Undecidable theories.

Readings

none