Sentences with phrase «as the continuum hypothesis»

His hunch about the non-existence of this mathematical mezzanine became known as the continuum hypothesis.

This curiously intractable riddle is known as the continuum hypothesis, and it concerns that most enigmatic quantity, infinity.

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As Cohen was able to show, in some logically possible worlds the hypothesis is true and there is no intermediate level of infinity between the countable and the continuum; in others, there is one; in still others, there are infinitely many.