论文短,影响深远,得国际大奖,这三点同时满足的很多人估计只能想到纳什的博弈论论文,但实际上1963年Paul Cohen发明力迫法获得菲尔兹奖的工作只有6页,登在PNAS上面,应该是菲尔兹奖级别的最短的论文。
THE INDEPENDENCEOF THE CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS
BY PAUL HEN*
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Communicαled by Kurl Gōdel, September 30, 1968
This is the first of two notes in which we outline a proof of the fact that the Con-tinuum Hypothesis cannot be derived from the other axioms of set theory, including the Axiom of Choice. Since Gödel³ has shown that the Continuum Hypothesis is consistent with these axioms,the independence of the hypothesis is thus estab-lished. We shall work with the usual axioms for Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory,² and by Z-F we shall denote these axioms without the Axiom of Choice,(but with the Axiom of Regularity). By a model for Z-F we shall always mean a collection of actual sets with the usual ∊relation satisfying Z-F. We use the standard defini-tions' for the set of integers ω, ordinal, and cardinal numbers.
THEOREM 1. There αre models for Z-F in ωhich the folloωing occur:
(1) There is α set α, α ⊆ ω such thαt α is not constructible in the sense of reference S,yet the A xiom of Choice αnd the Generαlized Conlinum Hypothesis both hold.
(2) The continuum (i.e.,℘(ω) ωhere ℘ meαns poωer set) hαs no ωell-ordering.
(3) The Axiom of Choice holds,bul ℵ ≠ 2ℵ⁰.
(4) The Axiom of Choice for countαble pαirs of elemenls in ℘(℘(ω))fαils.
就这样一篇论文,构造了一个满足ZFC但是其中连续统假设为假的模型(6页的这篇给出了力迫模型的构造,下一篇也是6页,证明力迫模型的确满足我们想要的的条件),和哥德尔差不多三十年前的结果共同解决了希尔伯特第一问题,直接让Cohen获得了菲尔兹奖
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