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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464393503321

Autore

Weaver Nik

Titolo

Forcing for mathematicians / / Nik Weaver (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Hackensack] New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

981-4566-01-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

511.3/4

Soggetti

Forcing (Model theory)

Set theory

Axiom of choice

Continuum hypothesis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

24. Suslin's Problem, II*25. Whitehead's Problem, II*; 26. The Open Coloring Axiom; 27. Self-Homeomorphisms of βN \ N, II*; 28. Automorphisms of the Calkin Algebra, I*; 29. Automorphisms of the Calkin Algebra, II*; 30. The Multiverse Interpretation; Appendix A Forcing with Preorders; Exercises; Notes; Bibliography; Notation Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ever since Paul Cohen's spectacular use of the forcing concept to prove the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the standard axioms of set theory, forcing has been seen by the general mathematical community as a subject of great intrinsic interest but one that is technically so forbidding that it is only accessible to specialists. In the past decade, a series of remarkable solutions to long-standing problems in C * -algebra using set-theoretic methods, many achieved by the author and his collaborators, have generated new interest in this subject. This is the first book aimed at expla