Set Theory: Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs

Oxford Logic Guides #47

by J.L. Bell

This monograph is a follow up to the author's classic text Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs in Set Theory , providing an exposition of some of the most important results in set theory obtained in the 20th century-the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice.
Aimed at research students and academics in mathematics, mathematical logic, philosophy, and computer science, the text has been extensively updated with expanded introductory material, new chapters and a new appendix on category theory, and includes recent developments in the field. Numerous
exercises, along with the enlarged and entirely updated background material, make this an ideal text for students in logic and set theory.

Genres: Mathematics

216 pages, Hardcover

First published May 12, 2005

About the author

John Bell (b. March 25, 1945) is professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 2006-07, he was named the first Graham and Gail Wright Faculty of Arts Distinguished Scholar at the University of Western Ontario. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was admitted on a scholarship to Oxford University at the age of 15, and graduated with a D.Phil. in Mathematics at the age of 21. His dissertation supervisor was John Crossley.[1]

He was appointed assistant lecturer in the Mathematics Department at the London School of Economics in 1968, and was appointed reader in Mathematical Logic in 1980. He taught at LSE until 1989. During this time, he served as visiting fellow at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1975) and National University of Singapore (1980, 1982). In 1989, he took a position as professor in the Philosophy Department at UWO. He is also an adjunct professor in the Mathematics Department at UWO.[1]

John Bell's students include Graham Priest (Ph.D. Mathematics LSE, 1972), Michael Hallet (Ph.D. Philosophy LSE, 1979), Elaine Landry (Ph.D. Philosophy UWO, 1997) and David DeVidi (Ph.D. Philosophy UWO, 1994).

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