If I could spend a day with a famous person

      If I could spend a day with anyone famous person it would have to be with Srinivasa Ramanujan. If you are interested in numbers and mathematics and know who Srinivasa Ramanujan is then you probably know the number 1729 and what it refers to, but for those who don't know who Srinivasa Ramanujan is let me give you a little bit of background knowledge on who this man is. Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician and autodidact, so he had no teacher and he had no training in pure mathematics. Ramanujan would always develop his mathematical research when he was alone, soon it became obvious that he had skills in mathematics and he began a partnership with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy. Ramanujan was truly a genius and now has the nickname "The Man Who Knew Infinity" The work he did was truly innovative at the time that nearly all of his work back then have now been proven correct. The meaning behind of 1729 is pretty interesting, G. H. Hardy said, "I remember once going to see him when he was 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."The two different ways are 1729 =1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³. I would want to spend a day with Srinivasa Ramanujan and ask if he could teach me or at least give me the smallest bit of understanding of how he has discovered so many different mathematical equations.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

movie adaptation on Srinivasa Ramanujan's genius
called "The Man Who Know Infinity" 

If you want to learn more about Srinivasa Ramanujan because there is a lot more that I didn't talk about

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