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The Paradox of the Infinite

Philosophers and non-mathematicians tend to be more puzzled. Psychologically it's very difficult to get your mind around these things. The mathematician David Hilbert used to illustrate these paradoxes in a very striking way. He used to imagine a hotel which subsequently gets referred to as 'Hilbert's Hotel'

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