MTH307 - Intro to Math. Rigor

Schedule

Here is a course timetable showing exactly where we are in class. I will attempt to update it at least weekly, to give you an idea of the reading you need to do to prepare for class.

Week beginning	Topics	Notes
09/03	Welcome to MTH307	First Week of Classes
09/10	1.1 Language and Logic 1.2 Proof
09/17	2.1 Direct Proof 2.2 Contrapositive and Contradiction
09/24	2.1-2 Other proof techniques (Existence/uniqueness, biconditional,quantifiers)
10/01	3.1 Weak Induction 3.2 Strong Induction
10/08	4.1 Language of Sets 4.2 Set Operations
10/15	4.2 (More) Set Operations Midterm 1	Midterm 1 on 10/18
10/22	4.2 Power sets 4.3 Arbitrary unions and intersections
10/29	5.1 Functions 5.2 Composition of functions
11/05	5.3 Injections, surjections and bijectons 5.4 Inverse functions
11/12	7.1 Relations	No class 11/13
11/19	Midterm 2 EAT TURKEY!	Midterm 2 on 11/20.
11/26	7.2 Equivalence Relations 7.3 Partitions
12/03	8.1 Cardinality 8.2 Finite Sets 8.3 Countable sets
12/10	8.3 Uncountable sets 8.4 More on Cardinality