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“was convinced that he had discovered a mathematical genius who needed proper exposure and guidance to flourish in mathematics. He therefore sent one of his mathematician colleagues, E. H. Neville, to India on the pretext of a lecture tour and assigned him the task of bringing Ramanujan to Cambridge. However, when Neville met Ramanujan after a lecture in Madras, he was pleasantly surprised to find the latter willing to come to England! This sea change in Ramanujan’s outlook towards the England visit came only”
― Dilip M. Salwi, S. Ramanujan: The Mathematical Genius