Round 7: 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 should believe in The Book.” In an essay on this (10[1])discipline, the 62-year-old (10[1])author calls it a “young man’s game” and praises (10[1])its “uselessness.” George Andrews discovered the so-called “lost notebook” of a scholar of this discipline, who died at 32 (10[1])after being brought to Cambridge by the author of an (10[1])“Apology” for (10[1])this discipline. (10[1])Games in this discipline (10[1])were the subject of a column by Martin Gardner. For 10 points, what academic discipline was studied by G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan? ■END■

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