Some people I know like numbers very much...
Ramanujan was lying on his deathbed in Chennai, India when his english chum G.H.Hardy took a plane from Cambridge to visit him in India. Well you see , he came to see him for the last time and complained to his indian friend:-
Hardy:- the taxi cab i took has the most un-interesting number..
Ramanujan:- which number?
Hardy:- 1729.
Ramanujan:- Hey there wait!!!! 1729... is NOT un interesting!
Hardy:- ...!
Ramanujan smiled weakly and said:-
- You see : 1729 is the smallest number which can be written as
1729 = 10^3 + 9^3
and
1729 = 12^3 + 1^3
that is, 1729 is the smallest number which can be broken down into two cubes in 2 different ways...
and the next such number is a very very large one in fact...
(internet source- life of Srinivasa Ramanujan)