College of Chemistry Course Guide

MATH 135 - Introduction to the Theory of Sets (4 Units)

(Taken from the UC Berkeley Course Guide)

Course Overview

Summary

Set-theoretical paradoxes and means of avoiding them. Sets, relations, functions, order and well-order. Proof by transfinite induction and definitions by transfinite recursion. Cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. Construction of the real numbers. Axiom of choice and its consequences.

Prerequisites

MATH 113 and MATH 104

Workload

Time Commitment

3 hours of lecture per week.




UC Berkeley Course Guide