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 ...

It’s probably best not to think too hard too often about infinity. No matter that the concept reappears again and again in the real world, from signal processing to quantum field theory to cosmology, ...

(Phys.org)—In 1924, the mathematician David Hilbert described a hotel with an infinite number of rooms that are all occupied. Demonstrating the counterintuitive nature of infinity, he showed that the ...

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 ...

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Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Physicists have created a quantum version of a famous thought experiment: the so-called Hilbert Hotel, which is always full and yet a vacancy can always be found for additional unexpected guests. Back ...

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, ...