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Mathematicians find 'magic key' to drive Ramanujan's taxicab number


October 14, 2015

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Taxicab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now, mathematicians at Emory University have discovered that Ramanujan did not just identify the first taxicab number--1729--and its quirky properties. He showed how the number relates to elliptic curves and K3 surfaces--objects important today in string theory and quantum physics.Full Story

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