2007-10-10 05:17:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Hardy-Ramanujan number. Read the wiki article as to why it's called that.
2007-10-10 05:20:56 · answer #1 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a hospital visit to the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In Hardy's words:[1]
“ I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number 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 number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
2007-10-10 12:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by David F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called the 'Hardy-Ramanujan number.' See the wikipedia article below for the reasons.
2007-10-10 12:21:02 · answer #3 · answered by thomasoa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the Hardy-Ramanujan number.
It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways
2007-10-10 12:22:17 · answer #4 · answered by mark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1729 is called ramanujum's no. & is unique since it can be expressed as sum of three perfect cubes.
2007-10-10 13:09:10 · answer #5 · answered by kapil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you nutz
2007-10-10 14:18:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋