FOM: Boolean near-triviality

[Moshe' Machover]

I have been following the long tortuous exchange about boolean
algebras/rings with incredulous amazement.

In a one-year course that John L Bell and I used to teach here in London to
first-year graduates, this matter was one of the simpler problems that the
students were supposed to solve (with hints provided).

See A Course in Mathematical Logic by Bell and me, Ch. 4, Prob. 2.5.
(North-Holland 1977, reprinted 1986).

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