Paul Cohen
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. Paul Cohen, American mathematician and theorist (d. 2007)
2 April 1934
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