Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
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Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel (colloquial: Infinite Hotel Paradox or Hilbert's Hotel) is a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. It is demonstrated that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate additional guests, even infinitely many of them, and this process may be repeated infinitely often. The idea was introduced by David Hilbert in a 1924 lecture "Über das Unendliche", and was popularized through George Gamow's 1947 book One Two Three... Infinity.
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See also
- List of paradoxes
- Banach–Tarski paradox
- Galileo's paradox
- Paradoxes of set theory
- Pigeonhole principle
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