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Started by Nikolai Volkov (@nvolkov) ·

1729 and Ramanujan

Hardy visited him in hospital and said his taxi's number, 1729, seemed rather dull. Ramanujan said no, it's the smallest number you can write as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³.

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“1729 hardy ramanujan taxi”
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Ramanujan's lost notebook

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  1. “1729 hardy ramanujan taxi” (google.com)
  2. 1729 (number) (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Srinivasa Ramanujan (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. G. H. Hardy (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Taxicab number (en.wikipedia.org)
  6. Ramanujan's lost notebook (en.wikipedia.org)

    a pile of his last work, found in a box at Trinity College in 1976

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