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Set Theory - O02310041
Title: Teorie množin
Guaranteed by: Katedra matematiky a didaktiky matematiky (41-KMDM)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (999)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Explanation: Rok5
Old code: TEMN
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Ladislav Kvasz, DSc., Dr.
Classification: Mathematics > Mathematics General
Pre-requisite : OSOZ1M
Annotation -
Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.10.2008)
Elements of the set theory. Cardinality of a set, countable and uncountable sets. Cardinal and ordinal numbers, Zermelo's axiom and its consequences. Cantor discontinuum and its properties. Peano's curve.
Aim of the course -
Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.10.2008)

The aim of the course is to refine the intuitive notion of the infinite by means of the Cantorian set theory. We will discuss problems from arithmetics, geometry and calculus which alow a deeper insight into the notion of infinity (Cantor's discontinuum, Peano's curve, etc.)

Literature -
Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.10.2008)
  • Alexandrov, P. S.: Úvod do teorie množin a funkcí
  • Sierpinski, W.: Cardinal and ordinal numbers
  • Balcar, B.- Štěpánek, P.: Teorie množin
  • Bukovský, L.: Množiny a všeličo okolo nich
  • Rohlíčková, I.: Aritmetika konečných a nekonečných množin
  • Bečvář, J.a kol.: Seznamujeme se s množinami
  • Pospíšil, B.: Nekonečno v matematice
  • Vilenkin, N. J.: Nekonečné množiny

Teaching methods -
Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.10.2008)

Lecture and seminar.

Syllabus -
Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.10.2008)

Antinomies of Cantor's intuitive set theory.

Comparison of sets. Sets of the same cardinality. Finite and infinite sets. Constructive and existential proofs of equivalence of two infinite sets. Cantor's theorem about the cardinality of the power set.

Countable and uncountable sets. Union and Cartesian product of two countable sets, the proof of their countability. The union and Cartesian product of countable many countable sets and the question of their countability. Uncountable sets and sets of the cardinality of continuum. The uncountability of the set of all real numbers. Sets of higher cardinalities.

Cantor's discontinuum. Uncountability of the discontinuum. The equivalence of a square with its side.

cardinal numbers and operations with them. Comparison of the arithmetic of cardinal numbers witrh the arithmetic of finite numbers. Alephs. The continuum hypothesis.

Ordered sets and well ordering. Ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. The non-commutativity of the arithmetic operations with infinite ordinals. Limit ordinals. The princile of transfinite induction.

The axiom of choice, its consequences and its alternatives. The well ordering of any set.

 
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