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\begin{center}{\bf Mathematics 609}\end{center}
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Instructor&M. Stob\\[6pt]
Office&223 CCMB\\[6pt]
Phone&631-- 6507, 616--949--8170 (home)\\[6pt]
Office Hours&M, F  2:00--3:00 PM\\
&W  9:30--10:30 AM\\
&or drop in\\
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\begin{center}{\bf Recommended Texts}\end{center}
You need not buy all (or even any)  of these.  The notes for the course
will be essentially complete.  For reference, for more details,
and certainly for further work in logic, it would be useful for
you to have one or more books in each of the areas of logic.

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Chang and Keisler, {\em Model Theory, Second Edition}\\
Hodges, {\em Model Theory}\\
Soare, {\em Recursively Enumerable Sets and Degrees}\\
Cutland, {\em Computability Theory}
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\begin{center}{\bf Test}\end{center}\mdskp
A take-home midterm test will be assigned over the fall break.
The due date for this test is October 29.

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\begin{center}{\bf Exam}\end{center}\mdskp
The final exam will be a take-home exam due December 19.
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\begin{center}{\bf Homework}\end{center}\mdskp
Homework problems will be assigned daily and collected weekly on
Wednesdays.  Homework assigned during a given week will be due
at the time of class on
the following Wednesday.  Collaboration on homework is allowed
and, indeed, encouraged.


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\begin{center}{\bf Evaluation}\end{center}
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The final grade will be a weighted average
of the grades on the homework, test,   and exam as follows:
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Test&25\% \\
Exam&40\%\\
Homework&35\%
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