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How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom
Joel David Hamkins, “How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom,” Mathematics arXiv (2024), arxiv:2407.02463.
← Previous Joel David Hamkins, “How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom,” Mathematics arXiv (2024), arxiv: 2407.02463. I describe a simple historical thought experiment showing how we might have come to view the continuum hypothesis as a fundamental axiom, one necessary for mathematics, indispensable even for calculus. This entry was posted in Publications and tagged categoricity, CH, continuum hypothesis, hyperreal numbers, Leibniz, Newton, thought experiment by Joel David Hamkins.
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