patheos

There’s always room at the Hilbert Hotel

I stumbled upon this series on mind-blowing math facts from a couple of years ago. It’s by Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz and treats things like the weirdness of pi, the quirks of probability, ...
American Physical Society

Adding Quantum Rooms to the Hilbert Hotel

An optical experiment realizes one of the room-changing operations in the Hilbert Hotel—a fictitious establishment that illustrates some perplexing properties of infinity. The Hilbert Hotel is a ...
The Daily Northwestern

At Hilbert’s Hotel, there’s always room for more trivia

For the past year and a half, Weinberg senior Justin Dynes — or one of his friends — has arrived at Bob’s Pizza at 6 p.m. sharp every Tuesday, ready to snag a table two hours ahead of the now-closed ...