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

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