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Ekeland borrows his story framework from mathematician David Hilbert, who introduced the Grand Hotel analogy as a way to conceptualize an infinite yet countable set. He recounts his experiences in pre-war Gottingen (where he studied under David Hilbert and witnessed the collapse of a great German academic and cultural tradition under the political pressures of a brutal Nazi regime). He realized that there's an entire hierarchy of infinities--a "paradise of infinities," in the words of the great German mathematician David Hilbert, one of Cantot's contemporaries. |
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