An introduction to independence for analysts / H.G. Dales, W.H. Woodin.
Material type: TextSeries: London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 115.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511662256 (ebook)
- 511.3/22 19
- QA9.7 .D35 1987
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Forcing is a powerful tool from logic which is used to prove that certain propositions of mathematics are independent of the basic axioms of set theory, ZFC. This book explains clearly, to non-logicians, the technique of forcing and its connection with independence, and gives a full proof that a naturally arising and deep question of analysis is independent of ZFC. It provides an accessible account of this result, and it includes a discussion, of Martin's Axiom and of the independence of CH.
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