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 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 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 ...
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