In mathematics, Suslin's problem is a question about totally ordered sets posed by Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin in a work published posthumously in 1920. It has been shown to be independent of the standard axiomatic system of set theory known as ZFC: the statement can neither be proven nor disproven from those axioms.
(Suslin is also sometimes written with the French transliteration as Souslin, from the Cyrillic Суслин.)
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