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Tuesday
January 4
Course overview. Applications of Compactness
PDF text: Section IV.11 and V.4., start of II.2. Hodel text: Section 6.1
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Thursday
January 6
Overspill, Theories, Nonstandard model of the integers, etc.
PDF text: Sections IV.11 and V.4. Hodel text: Sections 6.1.
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Tuesday
January 11
Topics TBA. Prepare by reading sections IV.11, V.5 and the proof of Completeness Theorem.
PDF text: Sections IV.11, V.3, V.5. Hodel text: Sections 6.2.
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Thursday
January 13
Algorithms (Informal). To prepare, start reading Chapter V.
PDF text: Sections VII.1, VII.2, VII.3. Hodel text: Section 1.8.
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Tuesday
January 18
More on computability. Prepare by reading sections VII.1-3.
PDF text: Sections VII.3. Hodel text: Section 1.8.
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Thursday
January 20
Algorithms for propostional and first-order logic.
PDF text: Section VII.4 and VII.5. Hodel text: N/A.
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Tuesday
January 25
Regular expressions, Axiomatiability and decidability, Cantor's theorem, Undecidability results.
PDF text: Section VII.7. Hodel text: N/A.
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Thursday
January 27
Halting problems and Undecidability
PDF text: Section VII.4 and VII.5. Hodel text: N/A.
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Tuesday
February 1
Introduction to Turing machines.
PDF text: Section VIII.1. Hodel text: N/A.
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Thursday
February 3
More on Turing machines
PDF text: Section VIII.1 and VIII.2. Hodel text: N/A.
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Thursday
February 10
Church-Turing thesis, Malleability, Universal Turing machine
PDF text: Section VIII.3 and VIII.4 (to be written). Hodel text: N/A.
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Tuesday
February 15
Self-referential algorithms. Rice's Theorem.
PDF text: Section VII.6.3-VII.6.5 and VII.7. Hodel text: Section 9.5.
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Thursday
February 17
Computable inseparability, Theories of arithmetic Q, PA, R. Representability.
PDF text: Sections VII.6, IX1, IX.2. Hodel text: Section 7.1.
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Tuesday
February 22
Theories of arithmetic Q, PA, R. Representability.
PDF text: Section IX.2, IX.3. Hodel text: Section 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4.
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Thursday
February 24
Proofs of the First Incompleteness Theorem.
PDF text: Section IX.4. Hodel text: Section 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.6.
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Thursday
February 24
First Incompleteness Theorem.
PDF text: Section IX.4.1-IX.4.3. Hodel text: 7.4, 7.5.
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Tuesday
March 8
Second Incompleteness Theorem.
PDF text: Chapter IX.8. Hodel text: 7.4.
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Thursday
March 10
Representability.
PDF text: Chapter IX.6-IX.8. Hodel text: 7.3.
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