Hilbert
Americannoun
noun
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In 1900, German mathematician David Hilbert asked what would become known as Hilbert's Sixth Problem, how the behaviour of a whole can be calculated based on the movement of individual particles.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the startup’s Palo Alto offices, the conference rooms are named for legendary mathematicians—Poincaré, Gauss, Hilbert, Lovelace, Turing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Mexican cuisine comfort soup recipes inspired by the menudo still life at the newly reopened Hilbert Museum of California Art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
“The year 2022 just started, and this potentially looks to be the most insufficient graphics card series of the year,” concludes Guru3D’s Hilbert Hagedoorn.
From The Verge ● Jan. 19, 2022
The German mathematician David Hilbert would say, “No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.”
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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