Assignment 1

Nils Anders Danielsson

In order to pass this assignment you have to get at least two of the following four exercises right. (Minor mistakes may be accepted.)

  1. State and give a brief explanation of the Church-Turing thesis.

  2. Give an example of a function on the natural numbers (from  to ) that is:

  3. Is ℕ × Bool countable? Provide a proof. (Bool is a set with two elements, true and false.)

  4. [BN] Is ℕ → Bool countable? Provide a proof.

(Exercises marked with [BN] are based on exercises from a previous version of this course, given by Bengt Nordström.)