MATH 4LT3 Midterm Test #1 Information

• The test will be held from 11:30am to 12:20pm  on Tuesday, October 17 (during the scheduled MATH 4LT3 time slot).
• It will be written in the scheduled MATH 3GR3 tutorial room.  Please ensure that you know where this room is well in advance of the test.  If you are not sure where it is, please check on the  4LT3 Avenue To Learn site for this course, or ask Dr. Valeriote.
• This midterm test is worth 20% of your final grade in the course.
  
• The test will cover material from the course up to and including the material found in Chapter 5 of the course textbook.
• Specifically, it will cover the following topics: 
  
• Chapter 2: equinumerosity, countable sets, countable union of countable sets, the uncountability of the reals, Schroder-Bernstein,
• Chapter 3: Russell paradox, the first 6 axioms, definite conditions, classes.
• Chapter 4: ordered pairs, disjoint unions, functions, relations, cardinal numbers.
• Chapter 5: Peano systems, existence and uniqueness of the natural numbers, the Recursion Theorem, arithmetic operations, pigeonhole principle, strings, the continuum.
• You should also be familiar with the basics  found in Chapter 1.
  
• You should know the definitions of the concepts introduced in the course, along with the statements and proofs of the theorems, lemmas, and corollaries covered.
• The statements of the first 6 axioms will be provided on the test paper.
  
• You will not be responsible for material from the above chapters that was not covered in the lectures.
• To prepare for the test, you should look over the relevant sections of the textbook, review your lecture notes, and go over the first 2 assignments.  In addition, you should try to do a good number of questions from the end of each of the chapters of the text that have been covered so far.
• No aids will be allowed during the test.