continuum hypothesis

Noun

 * 1)  The hypothesis which states that any infinite subset of ℝ must have the cardinality of either the set of natural numbers or of ℝ itself.
 * 2) * 2013, Kenneth Reinhard, Introduction, Susan Spitzer (translator),, The Incident at Antioch: A Tragedy in Three Acts / L’Incident d’Antioche: Tragédie en trois actes, , page xxxiii,
 * After all, when Paul Cohen sent his proof of the undecidability of the continuum hypothesis (which Badiou considers an “event”) to Kurt Gödel in 1963, Gödel wrote back that “reading your proof had a similarly pleasant effect on me as seeing a good play."
 * 1)  The assumption, for the purposes of mathematical modelling, that the material being studied is a continuous mass rather than being composed of discrete particles.
 * 1)  The assumption, for the purposes of mathematical modelling, that the material being studied is a continuous mass rather than being composed of discrete particles.
 * 1)  The assumption, for the purposes of mathematical modelling, that the material being studied is a continuous mass rather than being composed of discrete particles.

Translations

 * Dutch: continuümhypothese
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: samfellutilgátan