Introductory texts on Paul Cohen’s proof to the Undecidability of the Continuum Hypothesis. These explain a bit on his idea of the ‘generic set’ and his method of ‘forcing’. I was told that some people did not get this by email, so I post the links here:
“What is Forcing?” (the least technical text I found):
http://www.ams.org/notices/200806/tx080600692p.pdf
“Forcing for Dummies”:
http://www-math.mit.edu/~tchow/mathstuff/forcingdum
“A Beginner’s Guide to Forcing”:
http://alum.mit.edu/www/tchow/forcing.pdf
“Cheerful Introduction to Forcing and the Continuum Hypothesis”:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~easwaran/papers/forcing.pdf
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