Can you solve it? The London cab that rode into history
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#70QFH)
Do you have the knowledge?
Around 1919, the British mathematician G. H. Hardy hopped on a London cab on his way to visit his Indian colleague Srinivasa Ramanujan.
The cab's licence number, 1729, seemed dull to Hardy but his pal fervently disagreed. It is a very interesting number," said Ramanujan. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
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