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This episode traces the life and work of David Hilbert, the German mathematician whose infinite hotel puzzle opens the discussion and whose ideas reshaped modern mathematics. It covers his early career in Königsberg, his leadership at Göttingen where he mentored a remarkable generation of students, and his famous list of problems presented in Paris in 1900. The hosts also weigh his disputed role in the development of general relativity, his ambitious program to place all of mathematics on secure foundations, and how Gödel and Turing reshaped that dream, ending with the human cost of his later years and the enduring legacy of his question-driven approach.
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