{"id":257137,"date":"2024-04-01T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=257137"},"modified":"2024-04-01T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:48:05","slug":"the-infinite-hotel-paradox-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/the-infinite-hotel-paradox-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infinite Hotel Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Infinite Hotel<\/em>, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. Jeff Dekofsky solves some heady lodging issues using Hilbert&#8217;s paradox.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uj3_KqkI9Zo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Animation by <em>The Moving Company Animation Studio<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. Jeff Dekofsky solves some heady lodging issues using Hilbert&#8217;s paradox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1716,305],"class_list":["post-257137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-infinite-hotel-paradox","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257140,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257137\/revisions\/257140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}