Paul Cohen

See also: Cohen

Paul Joseph Cohen , (born April 2nd 1934 with Long Branch (New Jersey) and dead the March 23rd 2007), was a American Mathématicien .

He is especially known to have shown in 1963 that the Hypothèse of continuous the was independent of the axioms of the set theory of Zermelo-Fraenkel, work which was worth the to him Médaille Fields in 1966.

He used for that an original method, the sustained pressure .

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