{"id":138,"date":"2006-08-16T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T00:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.18.176.78\/dsn\/?p=138"},"modified":"2006-08-21T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T16:13:23","slug":"peter-faders-cool-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"The Cool Numbers of Peter Fader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIND THE WONDER IN A NUMBER<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"114\" border=\"0\" alt=\"header.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/67.18.176.78\/dg\/dsn\/archives\/header.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1729_(number)\">story goes<\/a> that British mathematician G. H. Hardy was visiting the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in the hospital. According to Hardy:<\/p>\n<p><em>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 unfavorable omen. &#8220;No,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of it being a logical fallacy, DSN belives that aping the habits of the great can make one great. Sometimes. So head over to a site where you can learn fasincating facts about numbers and perhaps end up the next Ramanujan.<\/p>\n<p>The site is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolnumbers.com\">coolnumbers.com<\/a> and is run by Wharton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.wharton.upenn.edu\/people\/faculty\/fader.cfm\">Pete Fader<\/a> a man of both both decision science and marketing. (Now that&#8217;s a cool combination.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIND THE WONDER IN A NUMBER The story goes that British mathematician G. H. Hardy was visiting the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in the hospital. According to Hardy: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-2e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}