MATH 591. Model Theory.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Structures, theories, and definable sets; elementary equivalence and elementary embeddings; compactness and Löwenheim– Skolem theorems; types, the omitting types theorem, and saturation; categoricity and the Ryll-Nardzewski theorem; quantifier elimination and applications to algebra; ultraproducts; homogeneous structures and Fraïssé theory; infinitary logics. Optional topics: indiscernibles and Morley's theorem; stability; o-minimality; elimination of imaginaries.
- Winter
- Prerequisites: MATH 318 or MATH 488 or MATH 456 or permission of the instructor.