Paul Cohen and forcing in 1963 (Q645317)
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Paul Cohen and forcing in 1963 (English)
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14 November 2011
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This short note offers a mixture of some remarks concerning the personal relationship of the author to Paul Cohen, and some remarks on the very basic idea -- adding suitably many new, generic reals -- of Cohen's construction of a countable countermodel for the continuum hypothesis.
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Paul J. Cohen
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forcing
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independence of CH
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