8. Finally, in 1912, he secured a job as a clerk in the
Madras Port Trust Office.
Here, his duties were light and so he could devote a
lot of time to his mathematics discoveries.
As luck would have it, the manager of the office,
S.N. Aiyer, was also a mathematician who took
kindly to Ramanujan and encouraged him in his
mathematics.
It was he who suggested to Ramanujan that he
work to G.H. Hardy, a famous mathematician at
Trinity College, Cambridge University.