Paul Cohen

1934 - 2007

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn College, University of Chicago, Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam

occupation: mathematician, logician, university teacher

award received: Fields medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Medal of Science, Bôcher Memorial Prize

student of: Antoni Zygmund

influenced by: Georg Cantor

official website: paulcohen.org

Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He is 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)