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G.H. Hardy and the Taxicab Numbers: 🚕 Renowned British mathematician G.H. Hardy once took a taxi to visit his collaborator, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, in the hospital. Hardy noted that the taxi's number, 1729, seemed "rather dull," which prompted Ramanujan to

G.H. Hardy and the Taxicab Numbers: 🚕

Renowned British mathematician G.H. Hardy once took a taxi to visit his collaborator, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, in the hospital. 

Hardy noted that the taxi's number, 1729, seemed "rather dull," which prompted Ramanujan to