Paul J. Cohen | |
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| Born | April 2, 1934 Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | March 23, 2007 (aged 72) Stanford, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Cohen forcing Continuum hypothesis |
| Awards | Bôcher Prize (1964) Fields Medal (1966) National Medal of Science (1967) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Topics in the Theory of Uniqueness of Trigonometrical Series (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Antoni Zygmund |
| Doctoral students | Peter Sarnak |
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007)[1] 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.[2]