Hilbert
Americannoun
noun
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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
She was given her traditional Skagit name, taqʷšəblu, after her great-grandmother Vi taqʷšəblu Hilbert, a linguist who helped preserve the Lushootseed language.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
“You asked for a better iOS experience, and as a result, we have brought major performance improvements to all supported iPhone and iPad devices,” explains Nicole Hilbert, product manager at Xbox.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2022
At the turn of the twentieth century the famed German mathematician David Hilbert published a set of twenty-three tantalizing problems that had evaded the most brilliant of mathematical minds.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 9, 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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