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What are some results in mathematics that have snappy proofs using model theory?
I am preparing to teach a short course on "applied model theory" at UGA this summer. To draw people in, I am looking to create a BIG LIST of results in mathematics that have nice proofs ...
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What is Realistic Mathematics?
This post is partially about opinions and partially about more precise mathematical questions. Most of this post is not as formal as a precise mathematical question. However, I hope that most readers ...
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Ur-elemental surprises
For most of my (mathematical) life, I believed that there was really no essential difference between set theory without urelements and set theory with urelements. However, while that may be true in ...
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What are some nice uses of ultraproducts/ultrapowers?
Motivated by a recent post (Non-definability of graph 3-colorability in first-order logic), I was wondering: what are some nice arguments based on ultraproducts? I don't mind definability results, but ...
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Book recommendation introduction to model theory
Next semester I will be teaching model theory to master students. The course is designed to be "soft", with no ambition of getting to the very hardcore stuff. Currently, this is the syllabus....
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What are some other uses for Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé games?
Let $\mathfrak{A} = \langle A, \dots \rangle$ and $\mathfrak{B} = \langle B, \dots \rangle$ be structures for a signature $\mathscr{L}$. For each ordinal $\gamma$ we define a game of perfect ...