Ramanujan’s letter to Hardy Dated 17-4-1913

On 17th April, Ramanujan wrote to Hardy about his having secured a scholarship of the University of Madras, for two years. Ramanujan set aside his Caste prejudice and Hardy stated that “Consent was at last got very easily” when “his [Ramanujan’s] mother announced that she had a dream in which she saw her son seated in a big hall amidst a group of Europeans and that the goddess Namagiri had commanded her not to stand in the way of her son fulfilling his life’s purpose”.