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 discipline, the 62-year-old 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 32 after being brought to Cambridge by the author of an “Apology” 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 and Srinivasa Ramanujan? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 99.67 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 65.75 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 105.42 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.25 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.13 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 87.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 106.50 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Warwick A | 31 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State | UCSD A | 44 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto F | Western B | 47 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Bristol | 52 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Carleton University | 53 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago A | 57 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | UBC B | Guelph | 60 | 10 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Indiana C | 60 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 60 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UC Santa Barbara | 61 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Swarthmore | 62 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | Southampton A | 63 | 10 |
| Scott Sibley | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 67 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Birmingham | 68 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 69 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Indiana B | 69 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Florida C | 70 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 71 | 10 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Claremont | 71 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Bruin | 71 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Montpellier | 71 | -5 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Manchester | 73 | 10 |
| June Miller | Florida A | Central Florida C | 74 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell A | 84 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial C | Warwick B | 86 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's | UBC A | 87 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Illinois B | 88 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 90 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA A | UCLA B | 91 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Georgetown | 92 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas B | 93 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Rutgers A | 93 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | CWRU A | 96 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Penn State | 96 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 97 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | McMaster A | 97 | 10 |
| Sushanth Balaraman | Texas A&M A | Murray State A | 97 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago D | 98 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama A | 98 | 10 |
| Mari Montoya | Waterloo B | Toronto E | 99 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 99 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 99 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Carleton College | 99 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech D | Louisville B | 99 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Edinburgh A | 99 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 100 | 10 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | Toronto B | 101 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Columbia A | 101 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Northwestern D | 102 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 102 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 103 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Central Florida A | 106 | 10 |
| David Nickel | Purdue B | Chicago E | 106 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Brock | 115 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Vassar | 115 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | CWRU B | 122 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | LSE | 127 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Catholic | 127 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 127 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech A | Missouri B | 129 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Oxford B | 129 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill B | Toronto G | 130 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Western A | 130 | 10 |
| Bonham Buchannon | Louisville A | Kentucky | 130 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 130 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 131 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Toronto F | 131 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | McMaster B | 131 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Western C | 131 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | WashU B | 131 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | Sewanee | 131 | 10 |
| Evan Roberts | Vanderbilt B | Tennessee B | 131 | 10 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | City St. George's | 131 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Edinburgh B | 131 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 131 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Johns Hopkins A | 131 | 10 |