317 Is A Prime, Not Because We

There Is Always More In One Of Ramanujan's Formulae Than Meets The Eye, As Anyone Who Sets To Work To Verify Those Which Look The Easiest Will Soon Discover. In Some The Interest Lies Very Deep, In Others Comparatively Near The Surface; But There Is Not One Which Is Not Curious And Entertaining.

I Remember Once Going To See Him [ramanujan] When He Was Lying Ill At Putney. I Had Ridden In Taxi-cab No. 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 A Sum Of Two Cubes In Two Different Ways."

I Am Interested In Mathematics Only As A Creative Art.

Young Men Should Prove Theorems, Old Men Should Write Books.

A Mathematician, Like A Painter Or Poet, Is A Maker Of Patterns. If His Patterns Are More Permanent Than Theirs, It Is Because They Are Made With Ideas.