Paul Cohen (mathematician)
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 — March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.
Read more about Paul Cohen (mathematician): Early Years, Contributions To Mathematics, On The Continuum Hypothesis
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