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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Integers

Functions

Groups

Basic group theory

A Problem Course in Mathematical Logic is intended to
serve as the text for an introduction to mathematical logic for
undergraduates with some mathematical sophistication. It supplies
definitions, statements of results, and problems, along with some
explanations, examples, and hints. The idea is for the students,
individually or in groups, to learn the material by solving the
problems and proving the results for themselves. The book should do as
the text for a course taught using the modified Moore-method.

Universal algebra has enjoyed a particularly explosive growth in the last twenty years, and
a student entering the subject now will nd a bewildering amount of material to digest.

This text is not intended to be encyclopedic; rather, a few themes central to universal
algebra have been developed suciently to bring the reader to the brink of current research.
The choice of topics most certainly reflects the authors' interests.

Table of Contents:

* Part I
o Introduction to Part I
+ What is this?
+ Navigating the text
o The UA-Calculators, Guide and Tutorial
+ General Description of, and directions for, UA-Calculators
+ Short description of special UA-Calculator operations for signatures

+ and algebras Other Applications of UA-Calculators
+ The UA-Calculator Algebraic Operations In Detail
o Preliminaries
+ Some typographic conventions
+ Some basic notation
+ Ordered Pairs
+ Total and Partial Functions

By "elementary algebra" we mean the material found in American high school and college algebra courses. This material consists of a selection of topics drawn from the broad area of mathematics known as algebra. The material presented in a traditional elementary algebra course is only a small part of the whole body of algebra. Indeed, a traditional course consists of material that was all developed before the mid nineteenth century, while the greater part of algebra was developed in the twentieth century.