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Hardy had gone out to Putney by taxi, as usual his chosen method of conveyance. He went into the room where Ramanujan was lying. Hardy, always inept about introducing a conversation, said, probably without a greeting, and certainly as his first remark: “I thought the number of my taxicab was 1729. It seemed to me a rather dull number.” To which Ramanujan replied: “No, Hardy! No, Hardy! It is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.” — C. P. Snow
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C. P. Snow, Variety of Men. London: Penguin Books, Ltd, 1969.
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Adams, C. (2023). Hardy and Ramanujan. In: Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves?. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31491-9_16
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