On the occasion of National Mathematics Day, a query has been raised: why is 1729 deemed a special number? Can the apt answer be available in these typed lines? Undeniably, it is a natural number following 1728 and preceding 1730. It can be a taxicab number. It is variously known both as Ramanujan’s number and the Ramanujan-Hardy number, after an anecdote of British mathematician GH Hardy on his...
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