My name is Jonas Reitz, and I am a Professor in the Mathematics Department at City Tech. My research interests are in mathematical logic, especially set theory. I enjoy pondering questions like “do sets really exist?” and “what does it mean to be a real number?” and “if sets do exist, is there a universe of sets?” I have an unhealthy fascination with the method...
This is one of two articles that came out of my dissertation (also titled The Ground Axiom).
Unforcing and the Ground Axiom My interest in “unforcing,” somehow working backwards from a forcing extension to a ground model, started early in my set theory studies. When I went through the rite of passage of learning Paul Cohen’s forcing – an exercise in induction, with a lovely (and at the time, frustratingly opaque) back-and-forth between technical details and...
Courtesy of the most excellent Mathematics Geneology Project. Me: Jonas Reitz My mathematical parent (graduate advisor): Joel David Hamkins My mathematical grandparent: William Woodin My mathematical great-grandparent: Robert Solovay My mathematical great-great-grandparent: Saunders Mac Lane My mathematical great-great-great-grandparent: Hermann Weyl My mathematical great-great-great-great...
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