On Ramanujan I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. 'No,' he replied, 'it is a very interesting number it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'
Quotes about ramanujan (3 Quotes)
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan 'As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends.' My reaction was, 'I wonder who said that I wish I had.' In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), 'It was Littlewood who said...'
The first time I heard the extraordinary story of Ramanujan, I tucked it away in my mind.