MC36 -- Relation-Based Structures -- Fall 1998

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Assignments for Week 4

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Problems Set #4 - Due - html  postscript

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Reading for Monday, October 5:

• Grimaldi:  3.2
• Hey, wait a minute, those membership tables look just like truth tables and the "Laws of Set Theory"(p160) look very similar to the "Laws of Logic" (p64-5).  What is the connection?  What differences are there?
• How do you prove things about sets?  What is an element argument?  (see proof of Thm 3.3, p158)
• Membership tables and Venn diagrams:  why can't we just use these?  Why do we have to prove things?
• Try 3.1 #1,11

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Tuesday, October 6:  No Class GO TO NOBEL CONFERENCE

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Problem Set #3 Due
Reading for Thursday, October 8:

• Grimaldi:  3.3, 8.1

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Reading for Friday, October 9:

• Grimaldi: