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Thursday
September 23
Course overview. Propositional connectives, usage in English
PDF text: Section II.1, start of II.2. Hodel text: Sections 1.1 and 2.1.
Prerecorded lectures: 1, 2.1 and start of 2.2
Podcast is audio only.
Tuesday
September 28
Propositional formulas, definition of truth, satisfiability, tautologies
PDF text: Sections II.2, II.3, II.4. Hodel text: Sections 2.1 and 2.2.
Prerecorded lectures: 2.2, 2.3, 2.4.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Thursday
September 30
Implication, equivalence, satisfiability (reduced) truth tables
PDF text: II.4, II.5, II.6. Hodel text: Section 2.2 including some exercises.
Prerecorded lectures: 2.3, 2.4, 2.5.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Tuesday
October 5
Boolean functions; DNF and CNF formulas; Adequate sets of connectives; Proof by Induction.
PDF text: II.7, II.8, II.9. Hodel text: Sections 1.2, 2.2 and 2.3.
Prerecorded lectures: 2.6, 2.7, 2.8.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Thursday
October 7
Adequate sets of connectives; Substitution; Introduction to PL proofs
PDF text: II.8, II.10, III.1, III.2. Hodel text: Sections 1.3, 3.5 (system L)
Prerecorded lectures: 2.7, 2.9, 3.1, 3.2.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Tuesday
October 12
PL proofs. Deduction Theorem and Hypothetical Syllogism.
PDF text: III.1, III.2. Hodel text: Sections 3.5 (system L).
Prerecorded lectures: 3.2, 3.3.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Thursday
October 14
Inconsistency, Contradiction, etc., and Compactness, Soundness, Completeness.
PDF text: III.3, III.4, III.5, III.7. Hodel text: Sections 3.5, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Prerecorded lectures: 3.4, 3.5, 3.6.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Tuesday
October 19
Compactness, Soundness, Completeness, Lindenbaum's Theorem.
PDF text: III.5, III.6, III.7. Hodel text: Sections 3.2, 3.4, 3.5.
Prerecorded lectures: 3.5, 3.6, 3.7.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Thursday
October 21
MIDTERM #1.
   Available: Review session slides and Review session podcast.
Tuesday
October 26
Proof of Completeness Theorem. Introduction to First-order Logic.
PDF text: III.6 and IV.1. Hodel text: Sections 3.4, 3.5, first page of Chapter 4.
Prerecorded lectures: 3.7.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Thursday
October 28
Terms, formulas, free and bound variables. Examples in the integers.
PDF text: IV.1, IV.2. Hodel text: Sections 4.1, 4.2.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Tuesday
November 2
Definition of Truth.
PDF text: IV.3, IV.5. Hodel text: Sections 4.3.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Thursday
November 4
Logical implication. Tautologies. Replacement with equivalent subformula.
PDF text: IV.4, IV.5. Hodel text: Sections 4.3.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Tuesday
November 9
Substitution, Equality Axioms and Alphabetic Variants.
PDF text: IV.7, IV.8, IV.11. Hodel text: Sections 4.4.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Tuesday
November 16
Alphabetic Variants, Quantifer axiom (instantiation), Prenex form, First-order axioms and rules.
PDF text: IV.7, IV.8, IV.9, IV.11. V.1. Hodel text: Sections 5.1, 5.6.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Thursday
November 18
MIDTERM #2.
   Review session podcast.
Tuesday
November 23
Prenex formulas. First-order (FO)-proofs. Axioms, Generalization, Equality, Tautological Implication.
PDF text: IV.9, V.1. Hodel text: Sections 5.1, 5.6.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Erratum: Some equality axioms omitted on slide 3, and included later on slide 9.
Tuesday
November 30
Deduction Theorem, Proof by Contradiction, Soundness Theorem and Henkin theories.
PDF text: V.1, V.2, and V.3. Hodel text: Sections 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.
Thursday
December 2
Proof of the Completeness Theorem; the Compactness Theorem.
PDF text: V.4 and V.5. Hodel text: Sections 5.5, 6.2.
Screen slides from lecture. And Podcast -- audio and video.