Speaker:
Ryan Holben
Institution:
UC Irvine, Math. Department
Time:
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 4:00pm
Location:
Rowland Hall 440R
Talk Abstract:
We will talk about the Continuum Hypothesis and how we tackle it in the field of set theory. Learn about large cardinals, independence and consistency proofs, and elementary embeddings, and why they are important.