Hotel Hilbert: A Play for Television by Darren Charles

Synopsis: A drama illustrating the paradoxes of infinity: only in an infinite hotel is it possible for every room to be occupied and while still leaving room for guests. The character Fiona Knight (Fi-Nite) arrives at the Hotel Hilbert (named after the German mathematician) to discover that the hotel can cater for an infinite number of guests arriving all at once and even for an infinite number of infinite numbers of guests. Fion meets various caracters - Tristram Shandy, engaged in writing his everlasting memoirs; Archimedes’ Sand reckoner, counting all the grains of sand in the world - and explores some of the wilder byways of the infinite.
Series: Exploring Mathematics, Course Ms221
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1996
Availability: Out of distribution
Subjects: Drama; Mathematics
Keywords: Charles, Darren; drama in English; infinity

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