Paul Cohen
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 17 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 2,1934 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Long Branch |
| New Jersey | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | March 23,2007 |
| Died | Stanford |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Field | Mathematics |
| Books | Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis |
| Awards | Fields Medal |
| Bôcher Memorial Prize | |
| National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
| Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary | |
| Nominations | Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary |
| Education | The University of Chicago |
| Brooklyn College | |
| Stuyvesant High School | |
| Known for | Cohen forcing; Continuum hypothesis |
| Doctor advisor | Antoni Zygmund |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 765937 |
Paul Cohen Life story
Paul Joseph Cohen 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.
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