Hilbert's Infinite Hotel

Every room is full. A new guest arrives. No problem. Then a bus pulls up with infinitely many more.

David Hilbert's hotel has infinitely many rooms and no vacancies, yet it can always take more guests. Check in a new guest, unload an infinite bus, and find the one bus that will never fit.

Steps

  1. A Full Hotel
  2. The Infinite Bus
  3. Infinitely Many Buses
  4. What Cantor Saw
  5. The Bus That Doesn't Fit
  6. Bigger Infinities