15-317
Constructive Logic
Spring 2007


Course Information

Time: Tue-Thu 12:00-13:20
Room: A19 Porter Hall
Instructor: Karl Crary
Credit: 9 units

Description

This multidisciplinary junior/senior-level course is designed to provide a thorough introduction to modern constructive logic, its roots in philosophy, its numerous applications in computer science, and its mathematical properties. Some of the topics to be covered are intuitionistic logic, inductive definitions, functional programming, type theory, computational content of classical logic, intuitionistic linear logic, and constructive modal logic.

Please read the course overview for a more detailed discussion of the course content.

Course Information

Lectures
Tue-Thu 12:00-13:20 Porter Hall A19 (Crary)
Recitation
Section: Wed 12:30-13:20 Doherty Hall 2105 (Danaher)
Prerequisites
CS Majors: 15-212
Phil Majors: 15-212, either 80-210 or 80-211
Math Majors: 21-127 and one of 21-228, 21-484, 21-373, 21-132
Grading
Homework: 50% Midterm: 20% Final: 30%
Homework
Homeworks are assigned each Wednesday and due the following Wednesday at recitation.
Each student begins the course with three late days, which can be used to turn in an assignment late without penalty. Once a student has exhausted all three late days, late homework will be accepted only under exceptional circumstances and by prior arrangement with the instructor.
Midterm
TBA
Final
Tuesday, May 15, 8:30-11:30
Home Page
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-317/
Directory
/afs/andrew/course/15/317
Electronic submissions are to be made through the course directory.
Software
Please read the course software page for information on the software we will use in this course.
References
The references for this course are given on the readings page.
Schedule
Please see the lectures page for an up-to-date lecture schedule.

Teaching Staff

Name Office Hours Phone
Lecturer Karl Crary Wean Hall 8127 TBA 7687
TA Evan Danaher Wean 7th floor whiteboards Tuesday, 6:00-8:00 -

Evan Danaher
Last modified: Thu Jan 25 14:07:16 EST 2007