Packet H: Tossup 5

An essay on this discipline opens by describing the author’s dispute with A. E. Housman about whether “exposition… is work for second-rate minds.” A work in this discipline by Aigner and Ziegler (10[1])is titled for a practitioner’s claim that “you don’t have to believe in (10[1])God, but you (-5[1])should believe in The Book.” (10[1])In (10[1])an essay on this (10[1])discipline, the 62-year-old (10[3])author (10[1])calls (10[1])it (10[1])a “young man’s game” (10[1])and (10[1])praises (10[1]-5[1])its (10[1])“uselessness.” (10[3]-5[1])George Andrews (10[1])discovered (10[1])the so-called “lost notebook” of a scholar of this discipline, (10[1])who died (10[1])at (10[1])32 (10[1])after being (10[1])brought (10[1])to (10[1])Cambridge (10[2])by the author (10[2])of (10[3])an (10[2])“Apology” (10[6])for (10[1])this (10[2])discipline. (10[2])Games (-5[1])in this discipline (10[2])were the subject of a column by Martin Gardner. (10[2])For 10 points, what academic discipline was (10[1])studied by G. H. Hardy (10[3])and Srinivasa (10[2])Ramanujan? (10[4])■END■ (10[11])

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