Large cardinal axioms and independence: The continuum problem revisited

DOI10.1007/BF03024354MaRDI QIDQ1345647zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors W. Hugh Woodin

Publication date 8 March 1995

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024354

zbMATH Keywords

continuum hypothesislarge cardinal axiomsnumber theoryprojective determinacy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mathematical logic and foundations (03-01) Consistency and independence results (03E35) Continuum hypothesis and Martin's axiom (03E50) Large cardinals (03E55) Determinacy principles (03E60) Connections of number theory and logic (11U99)

Review text

Labelled as `Mathematical Entertainment' this paper describes recent developments in set theory that show how large cardinal axioms influence `ordinary' mathematics. In the first part of the paper the author indicates that large cardinal axioms lead to new theorems in number theory and in the second, more explicit part he sketches how large cardinals settle certain instances of the continuum hypothesis via projective determinacy.

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