As numbers go, 1729, the Hardy-Ramanujan number, is not new to math enthusiasts. But now, this number has triggered a major discovery — on Ramanujan and the theory of what are known as elliptical ...

Every year on December 22, India observes National Mathematics Day to commemorate the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician whose life and work continue to hover between legend and rigorous ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

Prof. G.H. Hardy of the Cambridge University went to Putney by a taxi to see his student who fell ill. While they were chatting, Hardy mentioned the number of the taxi he came in – 1729 – which seemed ...

In the history of mathematics, few numbers have acquired a personality of their own. One such number is 1729, famously known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number, cele ...

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, ...

"I helped them act like mathematicians," Ono told The Telegraph. "They were very surprised to learn about the passion that mathematicians have for their work and ideas." A paper on the formula by Ono ...

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 have ...

Dev Patel plays Indian math genius Ramanujan and Jeremy Irons a Cambridge don in Matthew Brown’s biopic By Deborah Young Plus Icon It’s hard to make numbers sexy, especially on screen, but the life of ...