[FOM] A beginner's guide to forcing

Timothy Y. Chow tchow at alum.mit.edu
Tue Dec 4 17:29:24 EST 2007


I have just completed a first draft of an expository paper on forcing.

  http://alum.mit.edu/www/tchow/forcing.pdf

This paper grew out of a sci.math.research article that I posted back
in 2001 entitled "Forcing for dummies":

  http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math.research/msg/c2d65d1a23eabb66

I made a major change, hopefully for the better, by approaching the 
subject via Boolean-valued models, which I believe are pedagogically very 
helpful.  Constructive comments on the exposition are welcome.

Tim


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