Timeline for When was the continuum hypothesis born?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 6, 2013 at 23:08 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | @Andreas: Well, Moore cites that collection of letters as to where Cantor formulated CH in the stronger sense on "second number-class" in 1882. I don't know if that's the whole correspondence either, probably not though. | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 22:55 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | @AsafKaragila I'm not acquainted with the edition you mention. Note that the title of Zermelo's edition doesn't claim to have the whole Cantor-Dedkind correspondence but just "completions" (Ergänzungen) of Cantor's papers from the correspondence. | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 21:07 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | @Andreas: I thought that Noether and Cavallies edited the "Briefwechsel Cantor-Dedekind", or is that another version of letters between the two? | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 16:43 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | I suppose, as long as we're adding references, we could include Cantor's collected works, edited by Zermelo and published in 1932. The title is "Gesammelte Abhandlungen mathematischen und philosophischen Inhalts, mit erläuternden Anmerkungen sowie mit Ergänzungen aus dem Briefwechsel Cantor-Dedekind." | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 10:05 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | Of course. But the thing is that asserting there is no intermediate cardinal and that $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_1$ are two different things if you don't have have a full agreement about the axiom of choice yet. The question cited by the OP talks about the latter, rather than the former. | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 10:03 | comment | added | Benjamin Dickman | I suppose I should have also noted that, consistent with Moore's other writing, these referenced texts claim that Cantor formulated CH in 1878. | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 9:59 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | Actually, I was the one who added the reference-request tag. But this is a good contribution to the discussion nonetheless! | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 9:58 | history | answered | Benjamin Dickman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |