Paul Cohen and forcing in 1963
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Paul Cohen and forcing in 1963
zbMATH Open document ID: 1230.03006
author: Reuben Hersh
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 2011-11-14T00:00:00Z
review text: 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.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03E35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03E50
zbMATH DE Number: 5971480
zbMATH Keywords: Paul J. Cohen
zbMATH Keywords: forcing
zbMATH Keywords: independence of CH
reviewed by: Siegfried J. Gottwald
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00283-011-9241-4
OpenAlex ID: W1965202339
cites work: Q5371983
cites work: Q5573370
cites work: The discovery of forcing.
cites work: Some applications of the notions of forcing and generic sets
cites work: Q3801543
DOI: 10.1007/S00283-011-9241-4
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5971480