| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Set theory and the continuum hypothesis // Paul J. Cohen ; with a new introduction by Martin Davis. |
| Author: |
Cohen, Paul J., |
| Published: |
Mineola, New York :Dover Publications, : 2008., |
| Description: |
xxv, 154 p. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
"This Dover edition, first published in 2008, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by W.A. Benjamin, Inc., in 1966, and includes a new introduction by Martin Davis." |
| [NT 15003449]: |
I. General background in logic: Introduction -- Formal Languages -- Universally Valid Statements -- G6del Completeness Theorem -- The L6wenheim-Skolem Theorem -- Examples of Formal Systems -- Primitive Recursive Functions -- General Recursive Functions -- Godel Incompleteness Theorem -- Generalized Incompleteness Theorem -- Further Results in Recursive Functions. II. Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory: Axioms -- Discussion of the Axioms -- Ordinal Numbers -- Cardinal Numbers -- The Axiom of Regularity -- The System of GBdel-Bernays -- Higher Axioms and Models for Set Theory -- Lwenheim-Skolem Theorem Revisited. III. The consistency of the continuuum hypothesis: Introduction -- Proof of Theorem -- Absoluteness -- Proof of AC and GCH in L -- Relations with GB -- The Minimal Model. IV. The Independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice. |
| Subject: |
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. - |
| ISBN: |
9780486469218 |