\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsthm} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage[top=2cm]{geometry} \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{exercise}{Exercise}[section] \author{Sebastiano Tronto (\texttt{sebastiano.tronto@uni.lu})} \title{Elementary Logic exercises (Prep Camp 2020)} \begin{document} \maketitle \section{Logical operations} \begin{exercise} Determine if the following statements are \textbf{true} or \textbf{false}: \begin{enumerate} \item ``Today is Tuesday or Germany has more inhabitants than Luxembourg'' \item ``$7$ is odd and $2+2=5$'' \item Every number of the form $2^{2^n}+1$, for $n=1,2,3...$, is prime. \end{enumerate} \end{exercise} \begin{exercise} What is the negation of the sentence ``\emph{I payed attention in class and I did not do my homework}'' ? \end{exercise} \begin{exercise} Simplify the following logical expressions using the properties of logical operations (where $A,B$ and $C$ are statements): \begin{enumerate} \item $A\land(A\lor B)$ \item $A\lor (B\land A)$ \item $(A\lor B) \land \neg A$ \item $A \lor (\neg A\land B)$ \item $(\neg (A\lor \neg B))\land ((A\lor C) \land \neg C)$ \end{enumerate} \end{exercise} \section{Implication} \begin{exercise} Fill in the following truth table: \begin{align*} \begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline A & B & C & \neg(A\implies B) & (A\implies B) \implies C \\ \hline 0 & 0 & 0 & & \\ \hline 0 & 0 & 1 & & \\ \hline 0 & 1 & 0 & & \\ \hline 0 & 1 & 1 & & \\ \hline 1 & 0 & 0 & & \\ \hline 1 & 0 & 1 & & \\ \hline 1 & 1 & 0 & & \\ \hline 1 & 1 & 1 & & \\ \hline \end{array} \end{align*} \end{exercise} \begin{exercise}[Transitivity] Prove that the following statement is true for any statements $A,B$ and $C$: \begin{align*} ((A\implies B)\land (B\implies C))\implies (A\implies C) \end{align*} \end{exercise} \begin{exercise} What is the contrapositive of ``\emph{If this table is not reserved, we sit here}'' ? \end{exercise} \section{Quantifiers} \begin{exercise} Write the negation of the following statements: \begin{enumerate} \item $\exists x\in \mathbb N,\, x^2-2=0$ \item ``Every prime number is odd'' \item ``Every person I have met likes pizza'' \item ``There is at least one number greater than $7$'' \item $\forall x\in \mathbb N,\,x\geq 0$ \item $\forall x\in \mathbb Z,\,(\exists y\in\mathbb Z,\,x+y=0)$ \end{enumerate} \end{exercise} \begin{exercise} There is another quantifier that we did not cover in the lecture, namely $\exists!$ (read ``there exists exactly one''). For example, the sentence ``\emph{there exists exactly one natural number x such that x+2=5}'' can be written in symbols as ``$\exists!x\in \mathbb N,\,x+2=5$''. In this exercise, your task is to give a formal definition of this quantifier using the logical symbols that we have defined in class. In particular, you will need the following: \begin{itemize} \item the universal ($\forall$) and existential ($\exists$) quantifiers \item the conjunction $\land$ \item the implication $\implies$ \end{itemize} Moreover, you will need the equality symbol $=$ between two elements of a set (if $a$ and $b$ are two elements of the same set, ``$a=b$'' is a mathematical statement and it is \textbf{true} if and only if $a$ and $b$ are the same element). \emph{Warning: your definition must depend on a set $S$ and on a ``variable statement'' $A(x)$, as the existential and universal quantifiers.} \end{exercise} \section{Proofs} \begin{exercise} Prove by induction that \begin{align*} \forall n\in\mathbb N,\quad \sum_{k=1}^n(2k-1)=n^2 \end{align*} (here $\sum_{k=1}^n(2k-1)$ means $1+3+5+\cdots+ (2n-1)$). \end{exercise} \begin{exercise} If $n\in \mathbb N$ the \emph{factorial} of $n$, denoted by $n!$ is defined as follows: \begin{align*} n!=\begin{cases} 1&\text{if } n=0,\\ n\times (n-1)! & \text{if } n> 0. \end{cases} \end{align*} Prove by induction that if $n\geq 4$ then $n!\geq 2^n$. \end{exercise} \begin{exercise} Is the following statement true or false? Give a proof of your answer. \begin{align*} \forall n\in \mathbb N,\, n^2 -4n +5>n \end{align*} \end{exercise} \begin{exercise} Do the last point of Exercise 1.1 again, but this time give a proof of your answer. \end{exercise} \end{document}