Set Theory
Course, Bachelor's level, 1MA031
Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, The course will be taught in English, if needed Only available as part of a programme
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 33%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 18 March 2024–2 June 2024
- Language of instruction
- The course will be taught in English, if needed
- Entry requirements
-
60 credits in mathematics.
- Fees
-
If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 10,833
- Total tuition fee: SEK 10,833
- Application deadline
- 16 October 2023
- Application code
- UU-60073
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 4 March 2024–31 March 2024
- Information on registration
Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, The course will be taught in English, if needed For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 33%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 18 March 2024–2 June 2024
- Language of instruction
- The course will be taught in English, if needed
- Entry requirements
-
60 credits in mathematics.
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 4 March 2024–31 March 2024
- Information on registration
About the course
Set theory is a part of mathematical logic. The course covers: Paradoxes. The cumulative hierarchy. The axioms for Zermelo-Fraenkel's set theory. Classes. Ordered sets: partial and linear orderings, well-founded relations, well-orderings. The axiom of choice and equivalent variants. Zorn's lemma and the well-ordering principle. Transfinite induction and recursion. Ordinals and cardinals. The continuum hypothesis. Briefly about independence results and models of set theories. Briefly about category theory.
Contact
- Study counselling
- studievagledare@math.uu.se
- +46 18 471 32 03, +46 18 471 32 00