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Ian Agol
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Hilbert’s Hotel, which has an infinite number of rooms, always has space for more guests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel?wprov=sfti1#

More generally, a cardinal is infinite if and only if a set of that cardinality admits a bijective correspondence with a proper subset.

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