Answer:
Hilbert´s Hotel (by David Hilbert)
Explanation:
Imagine you are a foreign tourist that has just arrived to a town. In that town theres the<u> Hilbert´s Hotel</u>, internationally recognized for being the only hotel with <em>infinite rooms</em>. When you arrive to the lobby, you ask the manager to give you a room:
- Manager: "Im terribly sorry, but an infinite group of people has just arrived and all the rooms are full"
- You: "How is that possible? I thought you had infinite rooms
- Manager: "Indeed, but they are now full"
- You: "But that´s impossible... if there are infinite rooms they can´t all be full. I know there´s a way for me to get a room"
What would you do? You really need that room to spend the night...
NOTES: All the rooms are listed from one to infinity and only 1 person is able to stay per room.
SOLUTION
- You: "Look friend, all you have to do is tell the infinite group to move up one room, so the person staying the room 1 will move to the 2, the 2 to 3, the 3 to 4 and so on to infinity and i can take the room number 1. That way all the tourists, including me, would have a room."
EXTENSION OF THE PROBLEM
What would you do if two infinite groups of tourist´s arrives? How would you place them in the Hilbert hotel?
(hint: pair numbers are also infinite)
Significance of the problem
This particular problem is very interesting to me because it forces me to think out of the box something not only amusing but necessary to sort out day to day events.
Answer'Never mindddddddddddds'
Explanation:
Think
We are an indirect democracy because we elect people to represent us in higher levels of government.
This is a citation from Frenklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address in 1933. The Situation in the US in those days were challenging, mainly because of the Great Depression and its consequences, and because previous presidents did not manage to tackle that problem as well as they should. Unemployment was more than 20% and there was a widespread poverty.
So his words were a sign that he intends to be direct and open with the people in the US. He also wanted to calm the frustrated ones, and to act swiftly in order to show his decisiveness. So the best strategy was to calm the millions of american people who were quite close to the state of panic and distrupt.