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Ramanujan's Taxi Cabs and the Sum of 2 Cubes The Indian mathematician Ramanujan (picture cite: Wikipedia) is renowned as one of great self-taught mathematical prodigies. His correspondence with the renowned mathematician G. H Hardy led him to being invited to study in England, though whilst there he fell sick. Visiting him in hospital, Hardy remarked that... Continue Reading →
This formula above is one of the many staggering relationships found by mathematical genius Ramanujan - a largely self-taught Indian mathematician from around the turn of the 20th Century. It has been described by some mathematicians as Ramanujan's most beautiful formula - as it shows a remarkable connection between an infinite series, a continued fraction,... Continue Reading →