The number 1729 is known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number due to a famous anecdote involving mathematicians G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Sources
- List of mathematics history topics (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hardy-RamanujanNumber.html (mathworld.wolfram.com)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.00735 (arxiv.org)
- https://oeis.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Ramanujan_number (oeis.org)
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