M13:  INTRODUCTION TO ABSTRACT MATHEMATICS
 

LECTURE  M-W-F  3:00 - 3:50  ET 202   (MAP: BLDG #303) 
DISCUSSION 
Tu-Th  5:00 - 5:50   SST 220B     (MAP: BLDG # 201) 

INSTRUCTOR: Martin Zeman, RH 410E
OFFICE HOURS:  Wednesday 11am - 1pm  (I am coming from the opposite side of the campus, so may be late few minutes.)

TA:  Nicole Fider, RH 440V
OFFICE HOURS:   Tuesday 10am - 1pm

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BOOK   By Alessandra Pantano and Neil Donaldson will be used as the text for this class. 

MIDTERM INSTRUCTIONS     FINAL EXAM INSTRUCTIONS       

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS    HW1  HW2  HW3  HW4  HW5  HW6        

COURSE PROGRESS       PREVIOUS WEEKS          
WEEK 10     
W: Countability of Z×Z, N×N and Q. Cantor diagonal argument: Uncountability of {0,1}N, non-existence of a surjection f:A-->P(A).
M: Equinumerosity, cardinality of a set, finite cardinality and finite sets, cardinality aleph-0 and countable sets, uncountable sets, cardinality continuum. Examples of bijections f:N-->Nu{0}, g:N-->Z, h:(-1,1)-->R. Properties of relations: reflexivity, symmetricity, transitivity. Equivalence relations. Examples of equivalence relations: equality, congruence modulo 3. Equivalence class of an element. Read Section 4.4 and 7.3 from the book. Recommended practice problems.
  
  
WEEK 9    
F: Injections, Surjections, Bijections. Calculating images and preimages of sets under functions. Examples: f_2:R-->R with f_2(x)=x2, f:R-->[0,\infty) with f(x)=x2, g:N×N --> N with g((a,b))=g.c.d.(a,b), computing Im(g), g[EVEN×ODD], g-1[{2}]. Function F:P(U)-->{0,1}U where F(A)=the characteristic function of A; proof of its injectivity and surjectivity.  Read Section 4.4 and 7.2 from the book. Recommended practice problems.  
W: More examples of binary relations: membership {(a,A)\in UxP(U) | a\in A} and subset: {(A,B)\in P(U)xP(U) | A\subseteq B}. Inverse relation R-1 and examples of computing the inverse on the ordering relation of N and on the membership relation. Definition of a function as a binary relation. Domain, codomain, image Im(f) of the function f. Image f[X] of a set X and preimage (inverse image) f-1[Y] of a set Y under f. Recommended practice problems.   
M: Complements and basic computing with complements. The power set. Examples of power sets: Power set of the empty set, one- two- and theree- element set. Ordered pairs and their basic properties. Cartesian product and examples of cartesian product. Binary relations, binary relations from A to B, binary relations on A. Examples of binary relations on N: ordering, divisibility.  Read Section 6.1 (ignore Theorem 6.2 for the moment), Section 6.2 (ignore Theorem 6.6 for the moment) and Section 7.1 from the book. Recommended practice problems.    

 
WEEK 8       
F: Basic identities concerning set operations: commutativity, associativity, distributivity, de Morgan laws. Three examples or proofs: A distributive law, a de Morgan law, and the equality A\(A intersection B) = A\B. Complement. Read Section 4.3 from the book. Recommended practice problems.   
W: Terminology fromt the book: roster notation, builder notation. Inclusion. Theorem: equality of two sets is equivalent to two inclusions. Basic properties of inclusions: empty set is a subset of any set, a set is a subset of itself, transitivity of inclusion. Basic set operations: intersection, union, set difference. Read Section 4.2 from the book but ignore everything about cardinalities. Also read p.61. Recommended practice problems. 
M: An example of solving a linear Diophantine equation: 144x + 56y = 40. Sets: membership relation, extensionality principle, the empty set. The example {x|x\notin x}. Review propositional logic and quantifiers. Read Section 4.1 from the book but ignore the notion of cardinality (Definition 4.2).  Recommended practice problems.          

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