# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-cohen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:00:01.602Z

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name: "Paul Cohen"
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description: "Paul Joseph Cohen was an American mathematician, best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal."
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birthDate: "1934-04-02"
deathDate: "2007-03-23"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump