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2017-2018 Traditional Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
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MAT 430 - Foundations of Mathematics

Semester Hours: 3
The arithmetic properties of the integers. Formal development of the rational numbers. Algebraic extensions of the rational numbers. Cardinality. Analytic definitions of the real numbers. Geometric constructability. This capstone course in mathematics places special emphasis on the student’s abilities to reason inductively and to present formal proofs.

Pre-requisites: MAT 242 - Calculus II (4 semester hours) , MAT 250 - Discrete Mathematics  and junior standing.

Offered: Spring, even years.



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