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单词 Continuum Hypothesis
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Continuum Hypothesis

The proposal originally made by Georg Cantor that there is no infinite Set with aCardinal Number between that of the ``small'' infinite Set of Integers and the``large'' infinite set of Real Numbers (the ``Continuum''). Symbolically, the continuumhypothesis is that . Gödel showed that no contradiction would arise if the continuumhypothesis were added to conventional Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory. However, using a technique called Forcing,Paul Cohen (1963, 1964) proved that no contradiction would arise if the negation of the continuum hypothesis was addedto Set Theory. Together, Gödel's and Cohen's results established that the validity of the continuum hypothesisdepends on the version of Set Theory being used, and is therefore Undecidable (assuming theZermelo-Fraenkel Axioms together with the Axiom of Choice).


Conway and Guy (1996) give a generalized version of the Continuum Hypothesis which is also Undecidable:is for every ?

See also Aleph-0, Aleph-1, Axiom of Choice, Cardinal Number,Continuum, Denumerable Set, Forcing, Hilbert's Problems, LebesgueMeasurability Problem, Undecidable, Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms, Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory


References

Cohen, P. J. ``The Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis.'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 50, 1143-1148, 1963.

Cohen, P. J. ``The Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis. II.'' Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 51, 105-110, 1964.

Cohen, P. J. Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis. New York: W. A. Benjamin, 1966.

Conway, J. H. and Guy, R. K. The Book of Numbers. New York: Springer-Verlag, p. 282, 1996.

Gödel, K. The Consistency of the Continuum-Hypothesis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1940.

McGough, N. ``The Continuum Hypothesis.'' http://www.jazzie.com/ii/math/ch/ and http://www.best.com/~ii/math/ch/.


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