“No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.”

— Srinivasa Ramanujan · Wisdom quote

“No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.”

— SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

Mathematician · 1887 – 1920

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a largely self-taught Indian mathematician who, working with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge, produced some 3,900 results in number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. His intuitive genius and early death at 32 made him one of mathematics' most celebrated figures.

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