Timeline for Origin of the term "generic" in set theory
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 24, 2014 at 17:17 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | I just got off the phone with Levy. He didn't really remember who and how it entered the language. But he did say that after Cohen developed forcing, there was a lot of effort to polish the theory into a general form. So it must have been somewhere then. My question was ultimately left unanswered, though. | |
| Jun 7, 2014 at 12:03 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | I actually held in my hands a copy of Levy's second paper a year ago (the one from Notices of AMS). It was exciting. I asked for his permission to scan it and post it online, but he said that since these things have been published and reworked and cleaned up, there's no point in doing that. | |
| Jun 7, 2014 at 2:24 | history | answered | Benjamin Dickman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |