Set theory

I figured that SOMEWHERE on the planet, there must be a Hotel Hilbert.

(And you could go up to the reception desk, and INSIST that they find you a room. . . "FULL? How can the Hotel Hilbert be FULL?")

A Google search for "Hotel Hilbert" turns up a "Hotel Brigadier Sh De Hilbert Mario", in Santa Fe, Argentina - - but the sign on the door there says "Hotel Brigadier". Not good enough.

But there IS a Pension Hilbert in Greiz, Germany.

Oddly, it claims to hold fewer than 50 guests.


Now I know where to stay on vacation.

Well, that cheers me up.

Steven F. Weinberg won the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics for linking two of the fundamental forces (EM and the weak force), and thus bringing us that much closer to a grand unified theory of everything.

In her book The Canon, Natalie Angier reports that Weinberg "recently switched from particle physics to cosmology because the math in particle physics was getting beyond him."

I find this to be very, very heartening.