MODEL THEORY Fall 2013

In these notes I will look at that part of ”pre-Morley’s theorem era” model theory that I feel is most relevant for the current trends in model theory. Some of the topics are not chosen because of the theorems but because of the methods behind the proofs. Only the surface of each topic chosen is scratched, for more see [CK] or [Ho]. When we attach some names of persons to theorems, we just indicate the name of the theorem commonly used, the person(s) are not always the one(s) that actually proved the theorem originally. For the history, see the historical notes in [CK].