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Math 4730: Introduction to Set Theory, Fall 2013


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HW1 8/28/13
9/11/13
Read pages 1-15.

1.  Do Exercise 1.3.1.

2.  Do Exercise 1.3.3.

3.  Do Exercise 1.3.6.
HW2 9/13/13
9/20/13
Read pages 17-37.

1.  Do Exercise 2.2.8(a) and first claim of 2.2.8(b).

2.  Do Exercise 2.3.6(a).

3.  Do Exercise 2.4.1.
HW3 9/20/13
9/25/13
Read pages 39-45.

1.  How many partial orderings on {0,1,2} are there? (You may assume anything about counting that you learned in grade school, even if haven't proved it yet within ZFC.)

2.  Recall that a partial ordering of a set is a binary relation. What are the least and largest number of pairs that can occur in a partial ordering of an n-element set? (Problem to think about: is every intermediate value equal to the number of pairs of some ordering of an n-element set?)

3.  Do Exercise 3.2.1.
HW4 9/27/13
10/4/13
Read pages 46-54.

1.  Do Exercise 3.2.6.

2.  Do Exercise 3.2.8.

3.  Prove that mn+k = mn · mk. (You may need to prove some lemmas first.)
No HW 10/2/13
10/9/13
Read pages 65-68.
No HW 10/9/13
10/16/13
No hw.
HW 5 10/16/13
10/23/13
Read pages 69-73.

1.  (Reworded.) Recall that we defined tr.cl.(R) = ∪ ran(f) where f is defined recursively by f(0) = R and f(n+1) = R ° f(n). We showed that any transitive binary relation containing R also contains tr.cl.(R). Show here that tr.cl.(R) is transitive.

2.  Show that the function F:ω×ω→ω defined by F(m,n) = 2m*(2n+1) - 1 is a bijection. Conclude that |ω×ω| = |ω|. (You may use any true fact about the arithmetic of the natural numbers that you learned in grade school.)

3.  Show that the real line has the same cardinality as the real plane. (Hint: By the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem you only need to find 1-1 functions in each direction. For a 1-1 function from the plane to the line, try mapping a point (x,y) in the plane to the real number obtained by interlacing the digits of x and y. Be careful to explain exactly what you mean, noting that some real numbers have more than one decimal representation.)
HW 6 10/25/13
10/30/13
Read pages 74-78, 90-97.

1.  Show that |2ω|= |ωω|=|2ω×ω|.

2.  Show that the set of all equivalence relations on ω has the same cardinality as 2ω.

3.  Show that the set of all linear orders on ω has the same cardinality as 2ω.
HW 7 11/1/13
11/6/13
Read pages 103-122.

1.  (a) Give an example of a set that is transitive, but not well-ordered by epsilon.
(b) Give an example of a set that is well-ordered by epsilon, but is not transitive.

2.  Find all transitive sets of size 4.

3.  Do Exercise 6.2.8.
HW 8 11/8/13
11/13/13
Read exercises 3.3-3.5, which describe the recursive definition of the hereditarily finite sets and the properties satisfied by this set. That is, Vω satisfies most of the axioms of ZFC.

1.  Do Exercise 6.5.3.

2.  Do Exercise 6.5.9.

3.  Do Exercise 6.5.11(a)(b)(d).
HW 9 11/15/13
11/20/13
Read 124-136.

1.  Do the part of Exercise 7.1.2 that concerns products of ordinals.

2.  Do Exercise 7.1.4.

3.  Do Exercise 7.1.5.
HW 10 11/22/13
12/6/13
Read 137-146.

1.  Exercise 7.2.6.

1.  Exercise 8.1.10.

1.  Exercise 8.1.16.