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Hilbert

American  
[hil-bert, hil-buhrt] / ˈhɪl bərt, ˈhɪl bərt /

noun

  1. David 1862–1943, German mathematician.


Hilbert British  
/ ˈhɪlbət /

noun

  1. David (ˈdaːfɪt). 1862–1943, German mathematician, who made outstanding contributions to the theories of number fields and invariants and to geometry

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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

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

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 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