Mathematicians find ‘magic key’ to drive Ramanujan’s taxi-cab number
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Taxi-cab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now mathematicians at Emory University have discovered that Ramanujan did not just identify the first taxi-cab number – 1729 – and its quirky properties. He showed how the […]