How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom

2024/07/02 by Hamkins, Joel David
#FOS: Mathematics #Logic (math.LO)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.02463

Abstract

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.

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