Friedrich Paul Mahlo (born 28 July 1883 in
Coswig,
Duchy of Anhalt
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; died 20 August 1971 in
Halle,
Bezirk Halle
The Bezirk Halle was a district (''Bezirk'') of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Halle.
History
The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 19 ...
) was a
German
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mathematician
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.
Mahlo introduced
Mahlo cardinal
In mathematics, a Mahlo cardinal is a certain kind of large cardinal number. Mahlo cardinals were first described by . As with all large cardinals, none of these varieties of Mahlo cardinals can be proven to exist by ZFC (assuming ZFC is consi ...
s in 1911. He also showed that the
continuum hypothesis
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Or equivalently:
In Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice (ZFC), this ...
implies the existence of a
Luzin set
In mathematics, a Luzin space (or Lusin space), named for N. N. Luzin, is an uncountable topological T1 space without isolated points in which every nowhere-dense subset is countable. There are many minor variations of this definition in use: th ...
.
Publications
* PhD dissertation
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References
Further reading
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1883 births
1971 deaths
People from Coswig, Saxony-Anhalt
People from the Duchy of Anhalt
20th-century German mathematicians
Set theorists