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Written as a follow-up to the author's 'Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs In Set Theory', this text provides an exposition of some of the most important results in set theory obtained in the 20th century - the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice.
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Set theoryBoolean AlgebraProof theoryAxiomatic set theoryModel theoryIndependence (Mathematics)
About the author
John L. Bell
25 March 1945
John Bell is professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 2006-07, he was named the first Graham and Gail Wright Faculty of Arts Distinguished Scholar at the University of Western Ontario. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was admitted on a scholarship to Oxford University at the age of 15, and graduated with a D.Phil. in Mathematics at the age of 21. His dissertation supervisor was John Crossley. He was appointed assistant lecturer in the Mathematics Department at the London School of Economics in 1968, and was appointed reader in Mathematical Logic in 1980. He taught at LSE until 1989. During th…
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