Re:Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer
by thayne on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @01:42AM
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Yes, Paul Cohen proved that the continuum hypothesis (that there is no set with cardinality between that of natural numbers and real numbers) was independent of the ZFC formulation of set theory (the most standard set of axioms used in today's set theory) in 1963.
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Re:Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer
by schoen on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:47AM
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More about this on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis#Independe...
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice#Independence
And thanks to Wikipedia for this elaborate list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_independent...