For Hardy the collaboration with Ramanujan was "the one truly romantic incident of my life." Ramanujan's isolation from his family and the intensity of his work eventually took their toll, and within seven years of leaving India he was dead. Hardy arranged for Ramanujan to sail for England, leaving behind his wife and mother in Madras. Thus began one of the most productive and unusual scientific collaborations in history, that of an English don and an impoverished Hindu genius whose like has never been seen again. Hardy realized that the letter was a work of genius. Srinivasa Ramanujan begged Hardy's opinion regarding several ideas he had about numbers. Hardy, then widely acknowledged as the premier English mathematician of his time. In 1913, a twenty-five-year-old Indian clerk with no formal education wrote a letter to G.H.
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