...the number of his taxi, 1729, had seemed a particularly boring one. "Oh no!" cried Ramanujau at once; "it is a very interesting number. It is the smallest...expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." METOCHY <*> n. A zoological term, for the relationship between two different types of living creature...

..."personal friends" with every positive integer, producing spontaneous observations such as that 1729 is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. 118 John Nash, the creator of game theory, also integrated. According to Sylvia Nasar, his biographer,...

...seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No", he replied, "it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cube.s in two different ways." (ie 123 + I3 = 1729 = 103 + 93). . . . As Littlewood remarked,...

...to visit Ramanujan. On entering, Hardy mentioned this number, upon which Ramanujan commented, "1729 is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways." Ramanujan was referring to the representations I3 + 123...

...declared, "rather a dull number," adding that he hoped that wasn'ta bad omen. "No, Hardy," said Ramanujan, "it is a very interesting number. It is the smallest...expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." — As told by GH Hardy, from The Man Who Knew Infinity, by Robert Kanigel, Washington Square Press,...

...seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest...expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." Hardy (1937). The "two different ways" referred to by Ramanujan are 7.5 'Rational solutions of A:3...

...was rather a dull number, to which Ramanujan immediately reacted by saying No. 264 K. Srinivasa Rao It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways: 1729= 13 + 123 =93 + 103. As a sequel, Ramanujan was asked by Hardy, what was the smallest number that...

...lying, he remarked that the number of the taxi was rather a dull one. To which Ramanujan replied, "No, it is a very interesting number. It is the smallest...expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." This story, now part of the folklore of mathematics, was told by Hardy in his collected works and repeated...

...seemed to me a rather dull one. and that I hoped that it was not an unfavorable omen. 'No,' he replied, 'it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways'. 72.2. 4. Fermat's Last Theorem In the Introduction, I mentioned...

...seemed to me rather a dull one. and that I hoped that it was not an unfavorable omen. 'No.' he replied. 'it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest...expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'" Indeed. l.729= l03 + 93 - l23 + l-\ and no smaller number has such a property, But what neither Hardy...