Homepage of the course A taste of set theory

Mondays 14:00-16:00, Ziskind 1 (note change of place!).

The course is according to: T. Jech, Set Theorey (3rd edition, 2003).
The book has arrived at the mathematics library and will be on the overnight reserve shelf.

Syllbus. The syllabus is available here.

The contents of the first 5 lectures are covered more or less in the first few chapters of my free online book: Cantor's Dream.

Exercises

Frequency. Exercises are given each week, on this webpage.

Language. Exercises can be written in Hebrew or English.

Influence on grade. We hope that the final grade will be calculated from the exercise grades, we will check this possibility.

1. Exercise for the first week 28 Feb: Download the first 20 pages of the book Cantor's Dream. Read them briefly, and solve the following exercises inside:

2. Exercise for the second week 7 Mar: Avilable in pdf file here. Hints for Question 4.
Deadline for submission: 4 April 05 CE (Notice: same as Exercise 3 below!).

3. Exercise for the third week 14 Mar: Avilable in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 4 April 05 CE (same as Exercise 2).

4. Exercise for the fourth week 21 Mar: Avilable in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 11 April 05 CE.

5. Exercise for the fifth week 4 April: Complete proof of the Product Theorem. Exercise in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 2 May 05 CE (same as Exercise 6).

6. Exercise for the sixth week 11 April: Available in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 2 May 05 CE (same as Exercise 5).

7. Exercise for the seventh week 18 April: Available in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 9 May 05 CE.

8. Exercise for the eighth week 2 May: Available in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 23 May 05 CE.

9. Exercise for the ninth week 9 May: Available in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 30 May 05 CE.

10. Exercise for the tenth week 16 May: Available in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 20 June 05 CE.

11. Exercise for the eleventh week 22 May: Available in pdf file here.
Deadline for submission: 27 June 05 CE.
Exercise 11 is the last in our course.

You can find handwritten notes for the last two talks and some additional material (with notations slightly different than those in class) here.

Deadlines extension. You can submit exercises 7 to 11 until the end of July.