Something that can't be said about very many people -- Ramanujan has an integer named after him: 1729. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number) https://en.w

Something that can't be said about very many people -- Ramanujan has an integer named after him: 1729. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number) This is hands-down my favorite math story: It is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number, after an anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy when he visited Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in hospital. He related their conversation: 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 unfavourable 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."