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FUNDAMENTALS OF SET THEORY

MATH 570
Course Description

Introduces the basic concepts of Set Theory including: Set-theoretical paradoxes and means of avoiding them, sets, relations, functions, orders and well-orders, proof by transfinite induction and definitions by transfinite recursion, cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic, construction of the real numbers, the axiom of choice and its consequences.

Prerequisites

(MATH 234 and MATH 467 ) or (MATH 341 , MATH 375 , MATH 421 or MATH 521 ) or graduate/professional standing or member of the Pre-Masters Mathematics (Visiting International) Program

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
2.89

-3.7% from Historical

Completion Rate
77.78%

-11.31% from Historical

A Rate
33.33%

-1.52% from Historical

Class Size
18

10.77% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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