Srinivasa Ramanujan- Sorcerer Of Mathematics?

This legend:

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

1. He is considered as one of the finest mathematicians of the 20th century and the best part is he had almost no formal training in math.
2. He was the second Indian to be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society, which is a fellowship of some of the world’s most eminent scientists. And yes, he was theyoungest Fellow in the entire history of the Royal Society.
3. He compiled 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations), before he lost his life at the age of 32 (died of tuberculosis and a severe vitamin deficiency). His infinite series for pi was one of his most celebrated findings.
4. One of the notebooks, known as the ‘lost notebook’, was discovered in the Trinity College library by mathematician George Andrews in 1976, and was later published as a book.
5. When he was seventeen he developed the Bernoulli numbersand calculated the Euler-Mascheroni constant to 15 decimal places.
6. In 2015, famous director Matthew Brown directed a movie on his life called “The Man Who Knew Infinity”

1729 : Also known as Hardy-Ramanujan Number (another name : Taxi Cab number). This is the smallest positive number which can be represented as the sum of two different cubes.
1729 = 10^3 + 9^3 & 1729 = 12^3 +1^3. The amazing story behind this can be read here