FOM: Quick clarification on CH and Martin's axiom

JSHIPMAN@bloomberg.net JSHIPMAN at bloomberg.net
Thu Dec 11 14:16:36 EST 1997


I shouldn't have said Martin's axiom "settles" CH, since it just says that all
cardinals between aleph-0 and c behave like aleph-0 in a certain sense and is
vacuously true if CH holds.

For further discussion on CH, see
       http://www.ii.com/math/ch  (Nancy McGough)
       http://ling.ucsc.edu/~chalmers/notes/continuum.html (David Chalmers)

-- Joe Shipman




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