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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (838)	4/19/2005 7:52:19 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Godfrey H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan and were contemporaries of Einstein. I always liked this quote of Hardy's talking about Ramanujan when he was seriously ill in a hospital. Quoted in Godfrey H. Hardy, "Ramanujan" 1940 I remember going to see him once when he was lying ill in Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No.1729, and remarked that the number seemed to be a rather dull one, and that I hoped that it was not an unfavorable omen. "No" he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways." ( It is the sum of 1 X 1 X 1 and 12 X 12 X 12 , and also the sum of 9 X 9 X 9 and 10 X 10 X 10. ) A little more about India's greatest mathematician Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan. www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk * * *