Chris Freiling

Christopher Francis Freiling is a mathematician responsible for Freiling's axiom of symmetry in set theory.<ref>Template:Citation. 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."</ref> He has also made significant contributions to coding theory, in the process establishing connections between that field and matroid theory.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Freiling obtained his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Donald A. Martin.<ref>Template:Mathgenealogy</ref> He is a member of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at California State University, San Bernardino.<ref>Faculty/staff directory Template:Webarchive, CSUSB Mathematics Department, retrieved 2015-04-11.</ref>

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