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Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) [1] was an American mathematician. He is best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal. [2]
Mar 23, 2007 · Paul Cohen was an American mathematian who used a technique called forcing to prove the independence in set theory of the axiom of choice and of the generalised continuum hypothesis.
Paul Cohen was an American mathematician born in a Jewish immigrant family in New Jersey on April 2, 1934. His father’s name was Abraham Cohen while mothers’ name was Minnie Cohen and they had got separated when Paul was just nine years old.
Paul Joseph Cohen (born April 2, 1934, Long Branch, N.J., U.S.—died March 23, 2007, Stanford, Calif.) was an American mathematician, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the other axioms of set theory.
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Paul Cohen was one of a new generation of American mathematicians inspired by the influx of European exiles over the War years. He himself was a second generation Jewish immigrant, but he was dauntingly intelligent and extremely ambitious.
Paul Cohen was a celebrated mathematician and professor at Stanford University for almost 50 years. In his career, he revolutionized set theory and determined that the continuum hypothesis could neither be proven nor disproven.
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Paul Joseph Cohen (1934 – 2007) was an American mathematician who proved the continuum hypothesis, and that the axiom of choice is independent from the other Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms of set theory.
