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We do not closely follow any one textbook, and you are not required to buy any textbooks for this unit: this is not a “one chapter of the book per lecture” kind of unit. Instead, your main resources will be the lectures and lecture notes, along with the worksheets and solutions.
That said, for students who do like to learn from books, the following ones may be worth checking:
The main link to the materials folder is this teams link. You will need to sign in with your university account.
You can find a list of the main topics and calculations/procedures you should know for the exam in this document.
In this workshop, we will do a class test under semi-exam conditions. You will fill in your answers on an answer sheet that you hand in at the end of the workshop.
The class test will be on the material from workshops 1-3 (propositional logic).
You must bring a pencil and eraser to fill in the answer sheet. You must not use pen or correction fluid. You may use a non-programmable calculator.
You may bring up to one side A4 of original handwritten notes.
Due to illness, the lecture had to be cancelled at short notice. Please read the lecture notes in your own time: the material may still be assessed in the exam.
In this workshop, we will have our second class test. The material is everything up to lecture 8 on sets.
You must bring a pencil and eraser to fill in the answer sheet. You must not use pen or correction fluid. You may use a non-programmable calculator.
You may bring up to one side A4 of original handwritten notes.
Week 6 is reading week. There are no lectures, workshops or drop-ins.
For the second half of the unit, I’m trying something slightly new in the lecture notes. When presenting mathematics, there’s always a question how much “back story” to include - the history of the topics, the people who discovered them, the questions they were trying to answer in the first place, philosophical and sometimes even theological points that were relevant to the discoveries in question. Alongside this, there’s the question of how much intuition and motivation to present, separately from the definitions and formulas and calculations.
My experiment for this half of the course is to have the first page of each set of written lecture notes be solely about back story and motivation, narrated by Celian the Elf (pronounced Kelian). I’m sure for some of you, this will help you understand the topic better or make it more interesting; for others, you might not like the style - that’s ok, you can just skip the first page of the written notes and the “mathsy” part starts on Page 2.
Small change of plan:
Week 12 is revision week.