When George Shoobridge Carr (18371914) wrote his Synopsis of Elementary Results he intended it as an aid to students preparing for degree-level examinations such as the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos for which he provided private tuition. He would have been startled to see the two volumes first published in 1880 and 1886 respectively reissued more than a century later. Notably in 1903 the work fell into the hands of the Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan (18871920) and greatly influenced his math