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Early History of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis: 1878–1938

2011/10/17 by Gregory Moore · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · #Origins and Evolution of Life #Philosophy and History of Science #History and Theory of Mathematics

paper · doi:10.2178/bsl/1318855631

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Abstract

Abstract This paper explores how the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis (GCH) arose from Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis in the work of Peirce, Jourdain, Hausdorff, Tarski, and how GCH was used up to Gödel's relative consistency result.

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