Book:G.H. Hardy/Ramanujan
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
G.H. Hardy: Ramanujan
Published $\text {1940}$
Subject Matter
Contents
 | A table of contents is missing for this source work. You can help $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ by adding the table of contents. To discuss this page in more detail, feel free to use the talk page. When this work has been completed, you may remove this instance of {{ContentsWanted}} from the code. |
Representative Quote
- [ Ramanujan ] could remember the idiosyncrasies of numbers in an almost uncanny way. It was Littlewood who said that every positive integer was one of Ramanujan's personal friends. I remember going to see him once when he was lying ill in Putney. I had ridden in a taxi-cab No. $1729$, and remarked that the number seemed to me a rather dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavpurable omen. 'No,' he reflected, 'it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'