Module Details

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS: LOGICS

S1368

Course
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS: LOGICS
Code
S1368
Academic Year
2024/2025
Curriculum Year
2024/2025
Degree Programme
CHEMISTRY
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Credits
3
Lecture Hours
24
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MAT/01 - Mathematical Logic
Course Type
Single-subject learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
1
Teaching period
Primo Semestre
Campus
ALESSANDRIA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
Propositional logic and relative calculation of the natural deduction. Introduction to the Logic of Predicates.
Reference Texts
"Logica a Informatica" di A. Asperti e A. Ciabattoni, Mc Grow Hill Education (1997)

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Learning Outcomes
Introduce the elementary notions of logic of propositions and of the first order with particular attention to the relationship between truth and derivability and to representability in the calculation of predicates.
Prerequisites
Knowledge acquired in the course of algebra and geometry.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons that include exercises.
Additional Information
The grade of the logic module is a weighted average with the grade of the algebra and geometry module to obtain the final grade of discrete mathematics.
Assessment Methods
The final exam consists of a written test lasting half an hour and an optional oral test.
Detailed Syllabus
Propositional Logic:
• Syntax.
• Semantics: interpretation, definitions of satisfiable, contradictory, tautology, semantic consequence and related results, semantic equivalence, functional completeness and normal form.
• Natural deduction: rules and proofs, correctness, completeness statement.
Logic of Predicates:
• Syntax: free and bound variables, substitution.
• Semantics: Interpretation, definitions of satisfiable, contradictory, tautology, semantic consequence and related results.
Expected Learning Outcomes
The skills to be tested, and necessary for passing the course, consist in the understanding of the basic concepts of propositional logic (both as regards semantics and as regards test methods) and predicate logic.
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