It seems like such an ordinary number – so why does it show up so frequently? In the episode “Xmas Story,” Bender receives a card designating him “Son #1729;” but the number shows up in other places, ...

The story of 1729 chronicles the remarkable relationship between British mathematician GH Hardy and Indian mathematical savant Srinivasa Ramanujan, wh.

The year 1913 marked the beginning of an extraordinary relationship between an impoverished Indian clerk and a Cambridge don. A century later, their remarkable friendship has left its mark in the ...

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 at Emory ...

In 1919, the legendary British mathematician GH Hardy visited his ailing friend Srinivasa Ramanujan at a hospital in Putney, London. He arrived in a taxi bearing the number 1729, and joked that it ...

It is rare that a number can be split into two positive cubes, and even rarer that it can be split into two positive cubes in two different ways, and 1,729 is the smallest number that exhibits this ...

The year 1913 marked the beginning of an extraordinary relationship between an impoverished Indian clerk and a Cambridge don. A century later, their remarkable friendship has left its mark in the ...