Round 9: 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 God, but you should believe in The Book.” (10[1])In an essay on this discipline, the 62-year-old (10[1])author calls it (10[1])a “young man’s game” and (10[1])praises its “uselessness.” (-5[1])George Andrews (10[1])discovered the so-called “lost notebook” of a scholar of this discipline, who died (10[1])at 32 after being brought to Cambridge by the author of an “Apology” (10[1])for this discipline. Games in this discipline were the subject of a column by Martin Gardner. For 10 points, what academic discipline was studied by G. H. Hardy (10[1])and Srinivasa (10[1])Ramanujan? ■END■ (10[2])

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary