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Ramanujan writes to G. H. Hardy
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Srinivasa Ramanujan, a clerk at the Madras Port Trust, began corresponding with G. H. Hardy, who arranged for him to travel to Cambridge in 1914.
Srinivasa Ramanujan, a largely self-taught mathematician from Kumbakonam, was working as a clerk at the Madras Port Trust when he wrote to mathematicians in England. In 1913 he began corresponding with G. H. Hardy at the University of Cambridge, who recognised his work as extraordinary. In May 1913 he received a research scholarship from the University of Madras and moved with his family to Triplicane. Hardy arranged for him to travel to Cambridge, where he arrived in 1914 and produced major work in number theory and analysis.
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