Engineering College, Madras

Prof. C.L.T. Griffith was Professor of Mathematics at Engineering College, Madras. Dewan Bahadur Ramachandra Rao induced Professor Griffith to write to Prof. M.J.M. Hill, University College, London, forwarding some of Ramanujan’s results on divergent series. Unfortunately, Prof. Hill could not study the results in detail and observed that ‘the book which will be most useful to him [Ramanujan] is Bromwich’s Theory of Infinite Series, published by Cambridge University Press (or Macmillan)’ and gave advice as to how Ramanujan could get his papers published.