Taxi-cab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now mathematicians have ...

In the history of mathematics, few numbers have acquired a personality of their own. One such number is 1729, famously known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number, celebrated not for its size but for the ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan's mathematical talent cannot be defined by just one of his many achievements during his short life. Known as "the man who knew infinity," he discovered his own theorems and ...

Prof. G.H. Hardy of the Cambridge University went to Putney by a taxi to see his student who fell ill. While they were chatting, Hardy mentioned the number of the taxi he came in – 1729 – which seemed ...

Throughout the history of mathematics, there has been no one remotely like Srinivasa Ramanujan. There is no doubt that he was a great mathematician, but had he had simply a good university education ...