Prof.
P.V. Seshu Aiyar stated:
Ramanujan’s methods were so terse and novel and his
presentation was so lacking in clearness and precision, that the
ordinary reader, unaccustomed to such intellectual gymnastics,
could hardly follow him.
Mr. M.T. Narayanaiengar, one of the early editors of the Journal
of the Indian Mathematical Society states that this first article
of Ramanujan:
...attracted
considerable attention. It is, however, a sad confession to say
that the Editor’s work in connection with Ramanujan’s
contribution was by no means light. Ramanujan saw intuitively
many things and could not bring himself to explain, and the first
article had to be referred back to him no less than three times.
