Math 277, Autumn Quarter 2010

Course: TTh 12-1:20 in Social Sciences 108.

Instructor: M. Malliaris, 318 Eckhart
(third floor across from elevator)
Office hours: Thursday 4-5pm and Friday 5-6pm, and by appointment. See end of page for Week 10 and Exam Week office hours


College Fellow: E. Astor, 11 Eckhart
(basement of building, use stairs near main entrance)
Office hours: Weds 2-4pm, Fri 4-5pm, and by appointment. See end of page for Week 10 and Exam Week office hours
Problem session: Thursday, 7-8pm, 203 Eckhart (for those of you who attended in Week 1, note that the room has changed).

Syllabus

  • Week 1 documents:
    Week 1 Homework, due Monday October 4 at 3pm in Mr. Astor's mailbox (in the basement of Eckhart Hall)
    Recursion handout, from Halmos

  • Week 2 documents:
    Week 2 Homework, due Monday October 11 at 3pm in Mr. Astor's mailbox

  • Week 3 documents:
    Week 3 Homework, due Monday October 18 at 3pm in Mr. Astor's mailbox.
    Note that the \Sigma_0 in Problem 2 should be finite. Here is the HW3 tex source.
    Midterm information sheet
    Notes on definability, automorphism

  • Week 4 documents:
    (This week was a midterm review and midterm)

  • Week 5 documents:
    HW4, due Monday November 1 at 3pm in Mr. Astor's mailbox.
    Notes. In Problem 4, choose your example so that every cardinality in the set is represented. In Problem 5, you may assume n is not 1: note that the case n=1 is the challenge problem.
    here is the HW4 tex source

  • Week 6 documents:
    HW5, due Monday November 8 at 3pm in Mr. Astor's mailbox.
    HW5 tex source

  • Week 7 documents:
    HW6, due Monday November 15 at 3pm in Mr. Astor's mailbox.
    HW6 tex source

  • Week 8 documents:
    HW7, due Monday November 22 at 3pm in Mr. Astor's mailbox.
    Extra office hours Monday November 22 11:30am-12:30.

  • Week 9 documents:
    HW8, due Wednesday December 1 at 3pm in Mr. Astor's mailbox.
    Optional Assignment, due before the end of 10th week to M. Malliaris note: email is fine but if emailed must be in PDF format

  • Week 10 documents and announcements:
    Final Exam Guide and Informal solutions to HW8
    MM office hours: Tu 4-5, Th 4-5, Fri 11-11:30 and 1:30-2:30 and next week, Tuesday Dec 7 2-4 pm
    EA office hours: Weds 12/1 1-4; next week Monday 3-4 (HW8 available) and W 2-4.
    Reference: Enderton, A Mathematical Introduction to Logic, Second Edition. Other books you may find useful are on reserve in the Math Library.

    Grading scheme: 35% homework, 25% midterm, 40% final.
    Homework will be assigned weekly. The best 7 homework scores will count towards your homework grade.

    Midterm: Thursday, October 21, in class. Please speak to me as soon as possible if you anticipate an unavoidable conflict with this date.

    Final Exam: Thursday, December 9th, 10:30-12:30, usual room.

    Final Exam Policy
    It is the policy of the Department of Mathematics that the following rules apply to final exams in all undergraduate mathematics courses:
  • The final exam must occur at the time and place designated on the College Final Exam Schedule. In particular, no final examinations may be given during the tenth week of the quarter, except in the case of graduating seniors.
  • Any student who wishes to depart from the scheduled final exam time for the course must receive permission from Paul Sally (office is Ry 350, phone is 2-7388, email is sally@math.uchicago.edu). Instructors are not permitted to excuse students from the scheduled time of the final exam except in the case of an Incomplete.