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Early History of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis: 1878–1938

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Gregory H. Moore
Gregory H. Moore*
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Department of Mathematics, Mcmaster University Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada, E-mail: ghmoore@mcmaster.ca
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Abstract

This paper explores how the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis (GCH) arose from Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis in the work of Peirce, Jourdain, Hausdorff, Tarski, and how GCH was used up to Gödel's relative consistency result.

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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 489 - 532
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2011

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