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Question
Read the text and enlist the achievements and honours of Ramanujan, received in England.
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Solution
Ramanujan's achievements and honours received in England:
- The Royal Society elected him a Fellow at the age of thirty, which, even for a mathematician, is very young.
- Trinity College elected him a Fellow in the same year.
- Ramanujan was the first Indian to be given either of these distinctions.
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