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Cohen, Paul J (Joseph)

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Cohen, Paul J (Joseph) (1934-2007)

US mathematical logician. He included among his specialities axiomatic set theory, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations. He developed the technique of ‘forcing’ for modelling axioms in set theory.

He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and was educated at Brooklyn College, New York, and the University of Chicago, Illinois, where he was awarded his PhD in 1958. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he taught at Stanford University. He received the Bócher Prize in 1964 and National Medal of Science in 1967.



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