Written by Frank Cotterell Boyce
Hat Trick and WGBH Boston for BBC Scotland

My principal at Bible college told us, sadly, the story of the
mathematician Ramanujan dying in hospital and visited by a
colleague whose idea of bedside chat was to remark that the taxi he
came in had the dull number 1729. "No, Hardy," says Ramanujan, "it
is a very ...
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