The consistency of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum-hypothesis with the axioms of set theory
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The consistency of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum-hypothesis with the axioms of set theory
（Annals of mathematics studies, no. 3）
Princeton University Press, c1968
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The consistency of the continuum hypotheses
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Description based on 1970 (8th) printing
First published in 1940
"Notes added to the second printing"--P. 67-69
"[Notes] Added August 1965"--P. 70
Bibliography: p. 72
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Kurt Godel, mathematician and logician, was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Godel fled Nazi Germany, fearing for his Jewish wife and fed up with Nazi interference in the affairs of the mathematics institute at the University of Gottingen. In 1933 he settled at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he joined the group of world-famous mathematicians who made up its original faculty. His 1940 book, better known by its short title, The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis, is a classic of modern mathematics. The continuum hypothesis, introduced by mathematician George Cantor in 1877, states that there is no set of numbers between the integers and real numbers. It was later included as the first of mathematician David Hilbert's twenty-three unsolved math problems, famously delivered as a manifesto to the field of mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900. In The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis Godel set forth his proof for this problem. In 1999, Time magazine ranked him higher than fellow scientists Edwin Hubble, Enrico Fermi, John Maynard Keynes, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Jonas Salk.
He is most renowned for his proof in 1931 of the 'incompleteness theorem,' in which he demonstrated that there are problems that cannot be solved by any set of rules or procedures. His proof wrought fruitful havoc in mathematics, logic, and beyond.
Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. THE AXIOMS OF ABSTRACT SET THEORY, pg. 3*CHAPTER II. EXISTENCE OF CLASSES AND SETS, pg. 8*CHAPTER III. ORDINAL NUMBERS, pg. 21*CHAPTER IV. CARDINAL NUMBERS, pg. 30*CHAPTER V. THE MODEL DELTA, pg. 35*CHAPTER VI. PROOF OF THE AXIOMS OF GROUPS A-D FOR THE MODEL DELTA, pg. 45*CHAPTER VII. PROOF THAT V = L HOLDS IN THE MODEL DELTA, pg. 47*CHAPTER VIII. PROOF THAT V = L IMPLIES THE AXIOM OF CHOICE AND THE GENERALISED CONTINTUUM-HYPOTHESIS, pg. 53*APPENDIX, pg. 62*INDEX, pg. 63*Notes Added to the Second Printing, pg. 67*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 72
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