The Independence Of The Continuum Hypothesis Offprint From Proceedings Of The National Academy

by Paul Cohen

$50,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

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 his proof revolutionized the subsequent development of set theory. Kurt Gödel wrote in 1964 that

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