Chris Freiling Explained

Christopher Francis Freiling is a mathematician responsible for Freiling's axiom of symmetry in set theory.^[1] He has also made significant contributions to coding theory, in the process establishing connections between that field and matroid theory.

Freiling obtained his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Donald A. Martin. He is a member of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at California State University, San Bernardino.^[2]

Selected publications

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External links

• Home page

Notes and References

1. . See in particular p. 208: "This leads us to the stunning result of Christopher Freiling (1986): using the idea of throwing darts, we can disprove the continuum hypothesis."
2. http://www.math.csusb.edu/index.php?main=staffDirectory.html Faculty/staff directory