I recall a series, demo'ed on a blackboard

Post #218,688 by Ashton 8/10/05 5:19:00 PM Reply	I recall a series, demo'ed on a blackboard (On the topic of, 'presumptions' IIRC) ~ 1 2 3 5 17 xxx (forgot) Mere quadratics will Do that. Alas, too unused a sandbox for me to replay without pain. Good luck on the Possibilities. Old story, maybe involving (not Von Neumann) Bethe? and a decent math/physics guy. The number 1729? came up and one of them dubbed it, 'uninteresting'.. Other replied ~NOOoooo - it is the first sum of two cubes (3 cubes?) which .. It takes a specially-warped mind.
Post #218,689 by Another Scott 8/10/05 5:23:18 PM Reply	Ramanujan. [link\|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671750615/ref=pd_sim_b_2/103-5997129-1750200?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance\|Amazon]. Neat guy and a good book. As I recall, the numbers had to do with some prime numbers. Cheers, Scott.
Post #218,690 by CRConrad 8/10/05 5:28:05 PM Reply	Was going to say, "wasn't it that Indian guy?"... ...but fortunately the Other Scott saved me from the humiliation of not remembering the name. I think the thing about the number is that it's the lowest one that is the sum of two cubes, in two different ways (i'e, it's the lowest one that can be written both A^3+B^3 and C^3+D^3 (where A, B, C, and D are presumably positive integers)). Or was that 1741? [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #218,691 by ben_tilly 8/10/05 5:29:52 PM Reply	It was the sum of 2 cubes 1729 = 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #218,692 by Another Scott 8/10/05 5:34:30 PM Reply	Hey, I got his name right. :-) [link\|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(anecdote)\|1729]. Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #218,701 by Ashton 8/10/05 6:36:00 PM Reply	Holy Prodigy, Mathman Besides alt.math, WTF can you go 'sides IWE, mention some number offhand, and find that (at least 3 so far) have heard of That-number and are close / or dead-on as to its er, significance-if-any !? MUTANTS - You. Are. All. MUTANTS. I must make the sole-saving fish sign, now. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd
Post #218,702 by Another Scott 8/10/05 6:39:22 PM Reply	:-)

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