PHILOS 221ATopics in Set Theory
Philosophy · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Sets, relations, functions, partial and total orderings; well-orderings. Ordinal and cardinal arithmetic, finiteness and infinity, continuum hypothesis, inaccessible numbers. Formalization of set theory: Zermelo/Fraenkel; von Neumann/Gödel theory. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: Mathematics M114S.
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PHILOS 221A
- MATH M114SIntroduction to Set Theory
- PHILOS 135Introduction to Metalogic
- PHILOS 31Logic, First Course
- PHILOS 132Logic, Second Course
- MATH 110AAlgebra
- MATH 115ALinear Algebra
- MATH 131AAnalysis
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