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Cubes and Cube Roots

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This is a story about one of India’s great mathematical geniuses, S. Ramanujan. Once another famous mathematician Prof. G.H. Hardy came to visit him in a taxi whose number was 1729.

While talking to Ramanujan, Hardy described this number “a dull number”.

Ramanujan quickly pointed out that 1729 was indeed interesting. He said it is the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of two cubes in two different ways:

1729 = 1728 + 1 = 123 + 13

1729 = 1000 + 729 = 103 + 93

1729 has since been known as the Hardy – Ramanujan Number, even though this feature of 1729 was known more than 300 years before Ramanujan.

How did Ramanujan know this? Well, he loved numbers. All through his life, he experimented with numbers. He probably found numbers that were expressed as the "sum of two squares" and "sum of two cubes" also.

There are many other interesting patterns of cubes. Let us learn about cubes, cube roots and many other interesting facts related to them.