SUNY at Stony Brook MAT 511: Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics
Fall 2016

Welcome to MAT 511!

This course aims to develop your appreciation of the logical basis of mathematics, and to lay the foundation for subsequent courses in the program. One of our goals will be to enhance your ability to understand and construct proofs. We will discuss fundamental ideas like number, set, and function; topics to be covered are logic and proofs, mathematical induction, set theory, relations and partitions, functions, cardinality, axioms and construction for integers, rationals, and reals.

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Announcements

12/6/2016
Practice final exam has been posted here. Here are solutions.
11/30/2016
Homework 11 has been posted
11/16/2016
Homework 10 has been posted
11/10/2016
Updated version of Homework 9 has been posted
10/28/2016
Homework 8 has been posted
10/21/2016
Homework 7 has been posted
10/12/2016
Solutions of practice midterm are available here
10/11/2016
Midterm will be this Th, in class. A practice midterm is available here
10/7/2016
Homework 6 has been posted
9/30/2016
Homework 5 has been posted
9/23/2016
Homework 4 and handout 1 have been posted
9/16/2016
Homework 3 has been posted
9/9/2016
Homework 2 has been posted
9/1/2016
Homework 1 has been posted
8/22/2016
Website has been created.