Read the following excerpt written by Ramanujan on 31st January
1913 to a mathematician named G. H. Hardy in Cambridge,
England.
Fill in the blanks in the letter with the words given below. Also discuss with your friends the style of writing used by Ramanujan. How different is it from the style adopted to draft
emails and letters today.
Dear Sir,
I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department
of the Port Trust Office at Madras on a salary of only £20 per annum. I am now about 23 years of age. I have had no ………….. education but I have undergone the ordinary school course. After leaving school I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at Mathematics. I have not trodden through the ………… regular course, which is followed in a University course, but I am striking out a new path for myself. I have made a special …………… of divergent series in general and the results I get are termed by the local mathematicians as "startling"Third Paragraph Very recently I came across a tract published by you styled Orders of Infinity in page 36 of which I find a statement that no definite expression has been as yet found for the number of prime numbers less than any given number. I have found an expression which very nearly ………… to the real result, the error being negligible. I would
request you to go through the ……….. papers.Fourth paragraph Being poor, if you are ………. that there is anything of value I would like to have my theorems ……….. I have not given the actual investigations nor the expressions that I get but I have ……….. the lines on which I proceed. Being …………. I would very highly value any advice you give me. Requesting to be ………… for the trouble I give you.
I remain, Dear Sir,
Yours truly,
S. Ramanujan
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universal studios and I will be there at school and I have a few questions about the world to me baby and I will be there at school and I have to go to the store and get some rest and feel better soon and that is why I love you so much and I hope you have a great day and I will be there
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