利特尔伍德回应这宗轶闻说：“拉马努金是个奇迹（You have in Ramanujan nothing short of a miracle）这家伙超越了我所理解的（The man exeeds any notion of brilliance）任何天才的概念（than I have ever understood）忘掉雅各比，他可以和牛顿相提并论（Forget Jacobi，we can compare him with Newton）