Excerpt from Records of the Royal Society & F.R.S.
 
Certificate for a Candidate for Election.
 
Name and Title or Designation Srinivasa Ramanujan
Profession Research Student in Mathematics
Usual Place of Residence Trinity College, Cambridge
 
Qualifications(Not to exceed 250 words):
 

Distinguished as pure mathematician, particularly for his investigations in elliptic functions and the theory of numbers. Author of the following papers, amongst others: 'Modular equations and approximations to ', Quarterly Journal, vol. 45; 'New expressions of Riemann's function and , ibid, vol. 46; 'Highly composite numbers', Proc. London. Math. Soc., vol. 14; 'On certain arithmetical functions', Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc., vol. 22; 'On the expression of a number in the form ax2 + by2 + cz2 + dt2,' Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., vol. 19.

 

Joint author with G.H. Hardy, F.R.S., of the following papers: 'Une formulae asymptotique pour le nombre des partitions de n', Comptes Rendus, 2 Jan. 1917; 'Asymptotic Formulae for the distribution of numbers of various types', Proc. London Math. Soc., vol. 16; 'The normal number of prime factors of a number n', Quarterly Journal, vol. 47; 'Asymptotic Formulae in Combinatory Analysis', Proc. London Math. Soc., (awaiting publication).

 
being desirous of admission into the ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, we the undersigned propose and recommend him as deserving that honour, and as likely to become a useful and valuable Member.
 
From General Knowledge. From Personal knowledge.
(sd.) E.T. Whittaker
(sd.) A.R. Forsyth
(sd.) A.N. Whitehead		 (sd.)G.H. Har             Proposer.
(sd.)P.A. MacMahon Seconder.    
(sd.)J.H. Grace
(sd.)Joseph Larmor
(sd.)T.J.I'A. Bromwich
(sd.)E.W. Hobson
(sd.)H.F. Baker
(sd.)J.E. Littlewood
(sd.) J.W. Nicholson
 
Suspended for 1918.
 
Delivered at the Apartments of the Society on the 18th day of Dec. 1917.
Read to the Society on the 24th day January 1918.