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
“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen.”
“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen.”
— 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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