LEADER 02283oam 2200481 450 001 9910807275603321 005 20190911112729.0 010 $a981-4566-01-2 035 $a(OCoLC)872114307 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL8RBL 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092936 100 $a20131203h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aForcing for mathematicians /$fNik Weaver, Washington University in St. Louis, USA 210 1$aNew Jersey :$cWorld Scientific,$d[2014] 210 4$d?2014 215 $a1 online resource (x, 142 pages) 225 0 $aGale eBooks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-4566-00-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a24. Suslin's Problem, II*25. Whitehead's Problem, II*; 26. The Open Coloring Axiom; 27. Self-Homeomorphisms of ?N \ 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 330 $aEver 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 606 $aForcing (Model theory) 606 $aSet theory 606 $aAxiom of choice 606 $aContinuum hypothesis 615 0$aForcing (Model theory) 615 0$aSet theory. 615 0$aAxiom of choice. 615 0$aContinuum hypothesis. 676 $a511.3/4 700 $aWeaver$b Nik$0474411 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807275603321 996 $aForcing for mathematicians$93932879 997 $aUNINA