Thursday, October 18, 2007

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Ramanujan was a great Indian Mathematician. Professor Hardy was his associate. It is Hardy who brought Ramanujan to Cambridge.

Ramanujan was once in a hospital bedridden. Hardy came to see him in a Taxi. Its number was 1729 which Hardy said a boring number.

But Ramanujan said that it is the only number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

  1. = 10 cube+9 cube =1000 +729

  2. = 12 cube+1 cube = 1728+1


1 comment:

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