The Man who knew Infinity.......

Srinivasan Ramanujan
1887-1920

He was tutored by the great English mathematician G.H. Hardy.
Together they collaborated on numerous papers which startled the worlds leading. mathem’cians
When Hardy was asked ‘What was your greatest discovery?’ He replied Ramanujan.
When Hardy visited Ramanujan during his illness he remarked that the number of the Taxi cab was 1729 a rather dull number and hoped it was not a bad omen..
‘No Hardy’ said Ramanujan. ‘It is the smallest number that expresses the sum of two cubes in two different ways---1729 = 12^3 + 1^3 = 10^3 + 9^3.



12*12*12=1728

1*1*1=1=1


10*10*10=1000

9*9*9=729