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ain infinity to a child they immediately ask “What's infinity plus one.” A particularly smart kid I met, Dermot, asked, “What's infinity plus three?” Hilbert’s Hotel allows us to answer this problem in a way we can visualize. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015872 vhylbyyy | | tt tt VAVAVAVA A MY YI | i tt tt tt tt tT
an be created without understanding. Can a monkey, or perhaps some form of computerized random number generator, accidentally type out the script for Shakespeare's Hamlet or write Tolstoy’s War and Peace? Is knowledge generation simply a numbers game? Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is generally assumed to be the
r the occupants of the bus is larger than infinity. Real Numbers What about the real world we live in? Is the larger infinity we failed to fit into Hilbert’s Hotel present, or was it just a mathematical fiction? Hold up your thumb and index finger for a moment. The gap between them is a distance. Most li
‘monkeys and typewriters’ idea where we use random chance to generate information. Many people have suggested it is possible to write a play such as Shakespeare's Hamlet by simply typing random characters until we happened upon the play. The argument is flawed. The first flaw is the process would take a supe
black high hat, abracadabra. The Hebrew word for word, davar, also signifies thing. This view contrasts with the mathematical formalists, among them Hilbert, who considered the signifiers of abstract mathematics simply symbols used in a game, the rules of which being arbitrary, must include proofs of cons
ising the post-repentance blessings of Jesus. The eldest, articulate, bright and prematurely worldly, had been an ardent memorizer and appreciator of Shakespeare, especially the mystical Tempest, the music of Aaron Copeland and Igor Stravinsky, the improvisations of Charlie Parker and Cannon Ball Adderley and
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