In this week’s, Dr. David Gordon reviews Bruce Goldberg's Why Schools Fail and finds much to like. Not surprisingly, elite ...

This week we discuss the completeness theorem for the propositional calculus. Details can be found in this handout. You should also read Lemmon Chapter 4 during the next two weeks.

(Image: Bertrand Russell and W.M. Newton, Editor, BBC Talks Department.) The inaugural Reith Lecture was given on 26 December 1948 by Bertrand Russell. In a series of 6 talks Russell spoke on the ...

You need to implement an inference engine for propositional logic in software based on the Truth Table (TT) checking, and Backward Chaining (BC) and Forward Chaining (FC) algorithms. Your inference ...

Functor theory - Explores the concept of exact categories and the theory of derived functors, building upon earlier work by Buchsbaum. Freyd investigates how properties and statements applicable to ...

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We introduce induction as a generalization of primitive recursion and then discuss universal and existential quantification. This lecture delivered by Andreas Abel.