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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weaver, Nik, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forcing (Model theory).

Set theory.

Axiom of choice.

Continuum hypothesis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 142 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789814566018

9814566012

OCLC:

872114307