The Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis. Offprint from: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 50, No. 6, December 1963. [With:] The Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis II. Offprint from: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 1964. [With:] Autograph letter signed from Cohen to Martin Davis, Stanford, CA, November 27, 1963. [With:] Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis.
New York: W. A. Benjamin, 1963; 1966. First edition, extremely rare offprints, of Cohen’s proof that the continuum hypothesis (CH) and the axiom of choice (AC) cannot be proved from the generally accepted Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms (ZF) of set theory; the method of ‘forcing’ which Cohen devised for the purposes of..... More
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