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LMS: 115 Independence for Analysts
Author(s): H. G. Dales (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 21 Aug. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780521339964
- ISBN-13: 0521339960
Book Description
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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Book Description
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.
