Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (Monday - Week 4, TT25)

Abstract: I shall describe a simple historical thought experiment showing how our attitude toward the continuum hypothesis might easily have been very different than it is. If our mathematical history had been just a little different, I claim, if certain mathematical discoveries had been made in a slightly different order, then we would naturally have come to view the continuum hypothesis as a fundamental axiom of set theory, necessary for mathematics, indispensable even for the core ideas of calculus.

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