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How the Continuum Hypothesis could have been a Fundamental Axiom

Joel David Hamkins

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Published: Sep 10, 2024

DOI: 10.36253/jpm-2936

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I describe a simple historical thought experiment showing how we might have come to view the continuum hypothesis as a fundamental axiom, one necessary for mathematics, indispensable even for calculus.

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