Where did Ramanujan live and what was his salary? What did the goddess command to Ramanujan's mother in her dream ? How could Hardy believe that Ramanujan was a simple man? Find words from the passage that mean 1. Surprising 2. Principle
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Ramanujan turned out to be a poor clerk in Madras, living with his wife on twenty pounds a year. But he was also a Brahmin usually strict about his religious observances, with a mother who was even stricter. It seemed impossible that he could break the ban and cross the water. Fortunately his mother had the highest respect for the goddess of Namakkal. One morning Ramanujan's mother made a startling announcement. She had a dream the previous night in which she saw her son seated in a big hall among a group of Europeans, and the goddess of Namakkal had commanded her not to stand in the way of her son fulfilling his life's purpose. This, say Ramanujan's Indian biographers, was a very agreeable surprise to all concerned. In 1914, Ramanujan arrived in England. So far as Hardy could detect Ramanujan, despite the difficulties of breaking the caste-laws, did not believe much in theological doctrine, except for a vague pantheistic benevolence, any more than Hardy did himself. But he did certainly believe in ritual. When Trinity put him up in a college within four years he became a fellow. There was no "Alan St Aubyn" self-indulgence for him at all. Hardy used to find him ritually in pyjamas, cooking vegetables rather miserably in a frying pan in his own room.
49. Where did Ramanujan live and what was his salary?
50. What did the goddess command to Ramanujan's mother in her dream?
51. How could Hardy believe that Ramanujan was a simple man? 52
Find words from the passage that mean 1. Surprising 2. Principle