Fly away

One night, the lateness of the hour, an elderly couple walked into a hotel, they want a room. Front waiter replied: “I beg your pardon, our hotel has been filled to capacity, and an availability has not left.” Tired watching this for the elderly face, the waiter said: “But, let me think of a way out … …”
Described here, you want to have a mathematical below the continuation of, or willing to get a literary conclusion? In any case, mathematics and literature will be split up in here.

Mathematics is the development of the story: This well-intentioned waiter started to do for the elderly to solve the room problem: the hotel has him wake tenants, asking them to change places: on the 1st room for guests to rooms on the 2nd No. 2, room for guests to rooms on the 3rd … and so on … until each and every tenant has moved from his room the next room. Then a miracle occurred: the room was empty on the 1st out. Waiters are happy to arrange this on the elderly couple inside. No increase in the room, there is no reduction of the guests, the two old people went to all the rooms are occupied by the guests – but only by allowing each of the guests moved to the next room, the results of the first room on the air out, which is why it? / Original, the two old people into the mathematically well-known Hilbert hotel – it was considered a country with numerous room hotel. This story is great mathematician David Hilbert described, led him to mathematics, “infinity” concept. The concept for this important subject, it can be said without it we would find it hard to imagine how the existence of mathematics. As long as would count the number of people know that each integer has a successor until the infinite (in the Hilbert hotel, each behind the house will have an up to infinity) … … mathematics is an infinite about science.

Well, we returned to the waiter said, “Let me think of a way out” of the place. Literature is the continuation of the story. The waiter should be more literature and love of humanity, he certainly does not bear to let this night go out to find another accommodation for the elderly. But in such a small town, I am afraid that other hotels are already full to close, and this is not exhausted by the elderly will be living on the street late at night? So this well-intentioned waiter for the elderly to lead to a room, said: “Perhaps it is not the best, but now I can only do so has been.” Elderly eyes see is a neat and clean house, they happily to live down.

The next day, when they came to settle the future, the waiter gives them said: “No, because I have only lent their house you lived one night – I wish you a pleasant journey!” I see. Late one night the waiter himself, he would in the future value of an overnight night. Two very touched by the elderly. Old man said: “My child, you are the best I have ever seen of the hotel operator. You will be rewarded.” The waiter smiled and said that it had nothing. The elderly to send him out the door, then turned and busy own business, these things were completely forgotten.

Did not expect that one day, the waiter received a letter, open look, which has a one-way ticket to New York and has a short postscript to hire him to do another job. He flew to New York, according to the letter by indicating the route to a place, eyes One look, a resplendent Grand Hotel stands in his eyes. It turned out that a few months ago that night, he received is a country with hundreds of millions of assets and his rich wife. Rich for the waiter bought a big hotel, confident that he will be the operation and management of this hotel. This is the world famous Hilton Hotel in the first manager of the legend.

Things are from a compassionate, caring waiter with the minds of the beginning of wisdom: “Let me think of a way out … …” to enter the field of mathematics, are strictly required a certain logic, a reasonable inference and precise confirmation; to to the literature of the world, by virtue of human nature is beautiful, touching and unexpected circumstances and successful conclusion. But you found that there was no: whether literature or mathematics, the outcome is very magical – love to add the original intelligence are capable of producing miracles.

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