Teaching
Fall
2008
NYC
College of Technology:
- Office hours: Mon-Wed. 3:45-4:40pm,
or by appointment, in N826.
CUNY
Graducate Center:
- MATH 71100 (Logic I): Mon-Wed. 6:30PM-8:00PM, Room 4422
(GC)
- Office hours: Mon-Wed. 6:00PM-6:30PM, Room 4432.
- Textbook: "Introduction to
model theory", P. Rothmaler, 2000. In BibTex format:
book{Roth,
Address = {Amsterdam},
Author = {P. Rothmaler},
Publisher = {Gordon and Breach Science Publishers},
Series = {Algebra, Logic and Applications},
Title = {Introduction to model theory},
Volume = {15},
Year = {2000}}
- Pre-requisites: there are no formal pre-requisites, but since
we will use many examples from algebra, and some from other
disciplines, some maturity with abstract mathematics, especially
algebra (fields, rings, modules, groups) is expected. Also, some
exposure to formal logic (truth tables, predicate calculus,
quantifiers) will be helpful.
- About LaTeX: At some point in your graduate carreer you will,
most probably, have to learn TeX to write math papers or a
dissertation. Now is as good a time as ever to start learning it,
so that you can produce home work solutions in a professional
format. You are of course free to hand write assignments or use
some other word processor, but TeX produces so much more legible and
neat documents that you will regret in hindsight not having used it
earlier. Rather than learning the "bare bones" language TeX, most
people nowadays opt for the more user friendly LaTeX (the most popular
dialect presently is pdflatex which outputs a PDF file). There
are plenty free programs out there to write (La)TeX, for almost all
imaginable platforms. Here are some links to start you off:
Previous
semesters
NYC
College of Technology:
Fall
2006
Spring
2006 (on leave)
Fall
2005
CUNY
Graducate Center:
Spring
2008
Fall
2007
Fall
2006
- MATH 88700: The
use of
ultraproducts in commutative algebra
Spring
2006 (on leave)
Fall
2005