Coding the Universe

by P. Welch, A. Beller, R. Jensen

Axiomatic set theory is the concern of this book. More particularly, the authors prove results about the coding of models M, of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory together with the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis by using a class 'forcing' construction. By this method they extend M to another model L a] with the same properties. L a] is G dels universe of 'constructible' sets L, together with a set of integers a which code all the cardinality and cofinality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521280400
• ISBN13: 9780521280402
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"