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Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory , for which he was awarded a Fields Medal .
Mar 23, 2007 · Paul Cohen was an American mathematian who used a technique called forcing to prove the independence in set theory of the axiom of choice and of the generalised continuum hypothesis. View eight larger pictures. Biography. Paul Cohen's parents, Abraham and Minnie Cohen, were Jewish immigrants to the United States from their native land of Poland.
Paul Joseph Cohen (born April 2, 1934, Long Branch, N.J., U.S.—died March 23, 2007, Stanford, Calif.) was an American mathematician, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the other axioms of set theory.
Paul Cohen was one of a new generation of American mathematicians inspired by the influx of European exiles over the War years. He himself was a second generation Jewish immigrant, but he was dauntingly intelligent and extremely ambitious.
Paul Cohen was an American mathematician born in a Jewish immigrant family in New Jersey on April 2, 1934. His father’s name was Abraham Cohen while mothers’ name was Minnie Cohen and they had got separated when Paul was just nine years old.
Paul Joseph Cohen, one of the stars of twentieth-century mathematics, passed away in March 2007 at the age of seventy-two.
Apr 2, 2007 · Paul J. Cohen, a versatile mathematician whose path-breaking work in the field of logic helped resolve a fundamental question of mathematics and won for him the prestigious Fields Medal, died...
