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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (15914)	7/11/2006 10:23:57 PM
From: jackjc	Respond to of 78419

Don't remember which of the popular expositions of some of the 'Theory of Everything' attempts where this was brought out and his life featured. But some of these many dimensional solutions required handling arrays within arrays of functions which required techniques which his earlier work had provided. They had seemed merely curiosities at the time.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (15914)	7/11/2006 11:02:02 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78419

As for his place in the world of Mathematics, we quote Bruce C Berndt: ``Paul Erdos has passed on to us Hardy's personal ratings of mathematicians. Suppose that we rate mathematicians on the basis of pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, Littlewood 30, Hilbert 80 and Ramanujan 100''. One favorite story about Ramanujan revolves around a visit that Hardy paid to him in hospital. Hardy and Ramanujan had a habit of discussing the properties of different numbers. On this particular visit, Hardy commented to Ramanujan that the number of the taxi that he had just arrived in was 1729 -- a very uninteresting number. Ramanujan quickly replied that it was in fact a very interesting number as it was the smallest number that could be represented as the sum of two cubes in two ways: 1729 = 103 + 93 and 1729 = 123 + 13