On a January morning in 1913, Prof. G.H. Hardy at Cambridge
received a 10 page letter from Srinivasaa Ramanujan, a 23-year
old unknown shipping clerk from Madras, India. The ten-page
letter contained about 120 statements of theorems on infinite
series, improper integrals, continued fractions, and other
complex theorems pertaining to number theory. Initially,
attributing the letter to be from a crank, Prof. Hardy disregarded
the contents for a while. However, certain elements of the
complex equations in the letter forced him to have a second look
at the contents with his collaborator J. E. Littlewood and it did not
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