MATH 4LT3/6LT3 Final Exam Information

• The final exam will be held from 4:00pm to 6:30pm ET on Friday, 8 December.
  
• Check on Mosaic to find the location of the exam.
  
• Make sure that you bring your McMaster student card with you to the exam.
  
• No aids will be allowed during the exam, including calculators.
• To prepare for the exam, you should look over the relevant sections of the textbook, review your lecture notes, and go over the assignment and midterm test questions and solutions.  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 in the course.
• 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 axioms of ZFC will be provided on the exam paper.
• You should be sure to know and have an understanding of the following notions and definitions and their properties:
• cumulative hierarchy,
• rank of a set in the hierarchy,
• transitive sets,
• grounded sets,
  
• von Neumann cardinals, the alephs,
• von Neumann ordinals, the von Neumann map of a well ordered set,
• best well order,
• Zorn's Lemma, and applications,
• Konig's Theorem and basic cardinal arithmetic,
• the various Recursion Theorems,
  
• The Axiom of Choice, statements equivalent to it, and applications,
• Hartog's Theorem,
• well ordered sets and their properties.
  
• The exam will cover material from the course up to and including the material found in Chapter 12 of the course textbook.
  
• Leading up to the exam, Dr. Valeriote will hold office hours from 10:00am to 11:30am on Thursday December 7 and from 9:00am to 10:00am on Friday December 8 (Note the time change for the Friday office hour).  He will also be available by appointment and by email.