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Lecture 1 (August 28, 2026): Introduction to the course and the language of set theory
Lecture 2 (August 31, 2026): Set identities, paradoxes, and axioms for numbers
Lecture 3 (September 4, 2026): Complete ordered fields and square roots
Lecture 4 (September 11, 2026): Floors, density, and Dedekind cuts

The extended notes (beyond what we actually covered in lecture) additionally cover the digression on complex numbers and quaternions, and the beginning of our discussion of functions, area, and the integral.

Lecture 5 (September 18, 2026): Area, step functions, and the definite integral (with a hypercomplex number prelude)