Jonas Reitz

Category: Research

  • Tree growing out of ruins. Photo from: https://www.pexels.com/photo/building-with-tree-1534057/

    My Mathematical Geneology

    Courtesy of the most excellent Mathematics Geneology Project.

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  • Generalized Cohen Iterations

    Set Theory Seminar (RESCHEDULED from April 12)CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6417Friday, May 17, 10:00-11:45am, 2019Jonas Reitz, CUNYGeneralized Cohen Iterations Adding Cohen subsets to each of a class of cardinals in turn is a common construction in set theory, and underlies many fundamental results. The construction comes in two basic flavors, products (as in Easton’s Theorem…

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  • City Tech Math Seminar 4/19: Gödel’s Incompleteness – the most abused theorem in modern mathematics

    New York City College of Technology Mathematics SeminarThursday, April 11, 2019, 12:45pm-2pm, Room N700 “It is sometimes claimed to prove the existence of God or of free will, the necessary incompleteness of the Bible or of the U.S. Constitution, or the impossibility of genuine knowledge in mathematics—just to mention a few of the many alleged…

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