Ramanujan’s reply dated February 27, 1913

Ramanujan’s first reaction, in Feb. 1913 to the India Office in London was a refusal to go to Cambridge. Ramanujan sent his second letter, dated February 27, 1913, with many more results and took up the issue of why he was not sending any proofs by stating that “… you will not be able follow my methods of proof if I indicate the lines on which I proceed in a single letter.”