The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky

Sign up for our newsletter and never miss an animation: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-infinite-hotel-paradox-jeff-dekofsky Want more? Try to solve the buried treasure riddle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeklW2e6_E 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. What if it s completely booked but one person wants to check in? What about 40? Or an infinitely full bus of people? Jeff Dekofsky solves these heady lodging issues using Hilbert s paradox. Lesson by Jeff Dekofsky, animation by The Moving Company Animation Studio.