TITLE: Find $ ? = \sqrt[3] {1 + \sqrt[3] {1 + 2 \sqrt[3] {1 + 3 \sqrt[3] \cdots}}} $
QUESTION [11 upvotes]: I wonder about a closed form for
$ ? = \sqrt[3] {1 + \sqrt[3] {1 + 2 \sqrt[3] {1 + 3 \sqrt[3] {1 + 4 \sqrt[3] {1 + 5 \sqrt[3] \cdots}}}}} $
To be clear
$$? = \sqrt[3]{ 1 + \color{Red}{1}\sqrt[3]{ 1 + \color{Red}{2} \sqrt[3]{ 1 + \color{Red}{3} \sqrt[3]{\cdots}}}} $$ 
Where the red coefficients are just the natural numbers.
I tried solving the related equation $ f(x) ^3 = 1 + (x+y) f(x+1) $ for various fixed integer values $y,$ but I failed.
It appears 
$$ ? = \sqrt[3] {1 + \sqrt[3] 5} $$
But I am not able to prove it.
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_radical#Ramanujan.27s_infinite_radicals

REPLY [4 votes]: Generalizing Ramanujan's Radical, you can get trivial results like this,
$$2=\sqrt[3]{4+1^2\sqrt[3]{10+3^{2}\sqrt[3]{16+5^{2}\sqrt[3]{22+7^{2}\sqrt[3]{28+9^{2}\sqrt[3]{...}}}}}}$$
$$3=\sqrt[3]{7+2^{2}\sqrt[3]{13+4^{2}\sqrt[3]{19+6^{2}\sqrt[3]{25+8^{2}\sqrt[3]{...}}}}}$$
Where the terms, $4,10,16,..$ are in an arithmetic progression with $d=6$. And so are the terms $7,13,19..$
While your stated question looks similar to Ramanujan's, it isn't. A closed form expression is highly unlikely.
Also, the above expressions are from;
$$n+1=\sqrt[3]{1+3n+n^{2}\sqrt[3]{1+3\left(n+2\right)+\left(n+2\right)^{2}\sqrt[3]{1+3\left(n+4\right)+\left(n+4\right)^{2}\sqrt[3]{...}}}}$$

Some approximations for the constant, one of them include;
$$\approx \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{15}+\sqrt[3]{2}}{\sqrt{7}}}$$
At 6 decimal places, other approximations include;
$12^{\frac{2}{15}},\sqrt{\frac{97}{50}},\exp\left(\frac{1}{3}-\frac{1}{500}\right),\sinh^{-1}\left(\frac{17}{9}+.0001\right),\frac{39}{28}$