Item 1 - Letter from Srinivasa Ramanujan to Eric Harold Neville

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Letter from Srinivasa Ramanujan to Eric Harold Neville

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  • 12 Mar. 1914 (Creation)

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Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920), mathematician
(1887-1920)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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14 Vencatachalamudaly Lane, Triplicane [Thiruvallikeni], Madras [Chennai]. - Has been given a scholarship of at least one year of £250 a year which will be extended for a year if the reports from Cambridge are favourable. Is starting on 17 Mar. from Madras and will travel by sea all the way. Has written today to Mr Hardy. Asks Neville to 'take me or at least send some-body to London as I am new to anything and everything'; apologises for the trouble taken on his behalf by Neville.

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