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Paul Cohen (Wikipedia)
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Paul Cohen (Wikipedia)
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Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 - March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician, 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.
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