Paul Cohen died (1 Viewer)

[buchanan]

Paul Cohen passed away last Friday.

He's famous for proving the undecidability of the continuum hypothesis in 1963 for which he got a Fields medal in 1966.

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2007-March/011482.html

Here's more about Paul Cohen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cohen_(mathematician)