Set Theory
5 credits
Course, Bachelor's level, 1MA031
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Spring 2026 Spring 2026, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, Swedish Only available as part of a programme
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 33%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 23 March 2026–7 June 2026
- Language of instruction
- Swedish
- Entry requirements
-
60 credits in mathematics.
- Application deadline
- 15 October 2025
- Application code
- UU-60073
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 9 March 2026–5 April 2026
- Information on registration from the department
Spring 2026 Spring 2026, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, Swedish For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 33%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 23 March 2026–7 June 2026
- Language of instruction
- Swedish
- Entry requirements
-
60 credits in mathematics.
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 9 March 2026–5 April 2026
- Information on registration from the department
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.