Paul Cohen Scientist

Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.

Personal facts

Birth dateApril 02, 1934
Birth place
Long Branch New Jersey
Date of deathMarch 23, 2007
Place of death
Palo Alto California , Stanford California
Education
Brooklyn College
Stuyvesant High School
University of Chicago
Known for
Continuum hypothesis
List of forcing notions

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awards
Fields Medal
National Medal of Science
Bôcher Memorial Prize
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Field of study
Mathematics
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