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David Hilbert (1862 1943), a German mathematician, was interested in geometrical spaces and number theory. He proposed the Infinite Hotel, otherwise known as Hilbert’s Hotel, as an illustration of the problems of treating infinity as a number.
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This is especially weird. Even in a full hotel, you canada goose uk outlet can accommodate an infinite amount of new guests. With this case, we show that two times infinity (or, in fact, any finite number times infinity) is still infinity.
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We number each of the buses 1, 2, 3 and so on. We also number the people on each bus 1, 2, canada goose clearance 3 and so on.
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With this system, everybody gets a room and the hotel is still full. This shows that infinity multiplied by infinity is still infinity.
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This question was posed and answered by Georg Cantor, who showed that such an infinity does exist. He used his ingenious ‘Diagonal Argument’ to prove the existence of bigger and bigger infinities. But that’s another story.
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