December 2011 Early history of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis: 1878—1938
Gregory H. Moore
Bull. Symbolic Logic 17(4): 489-532 (December 2011). DOI: 10.2178/bsl/1318855631

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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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Gregory H. Moore. "Early history of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis: 1878—1938." Bull. Symbolic Logic 17 (4) 489 - 532, December 2011. https://doi.org/10.2178/bsl/1318855631

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Published: December 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 17 October 2011

zbMATH: 1247.03002
MathSciNet: MR2896574
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2178/bsl/1318855631

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Association for Symbolic Logic

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