Ramchandra Rao states that Ramanujan “shewed me some of his simpler results. These transcended existing books and I had no doubt that he was a remarkable man. Then, step-by-step to elliptic integrals and hyper geometric series and at last to this theory of divergent series not yet announced to the world converted me. I asked him what he wanted. He said he wanted a pittance to live on so that he might pursue his researches.”