研究生学术英语读写教程Unit 4.pptxVIP

Unit 4 Mathematics 研究生学术英语读写教程 Outline 1. Text A Magic Numbers: Can Maths Equations be Beautiful? 2. Academic Reading Skills Evaluating Evidence 3. Text B Seeing as Understanding: The Importance of Visual Mathematics for Our Brain and Learning 4. Academic Writing Skills Choosing Effective Evidence to Support a Thesis 2 1. Text AMagic Numbers: Can Maths Equations be Beautiful? Before You Read… How do you think mathematicians are contributing to human progress? Do you think mathematics is beautiful? Why or why not? 9/22/2022 4 Text A: Lead-in Questions Sentence comprehension Theme and structure Comprehension questions Text A Sentence Translation 1. Maths becomes beautiful through the power and elegance of its arguments and formulae; through the bridges it builds between previously unconnected worlds. (Para. 2) 数学之美，在于其论证和公式的力量与优雅，在于它贯通了原本互不相干的世界。 Text A: Sentence comprehension Sentence Translation 2. For those who learn the language, maths has the same capacity for beauty as art, music, a full blanket of stars on the darkest night. (Para. 2) 对于学习数学这门语言的人而言，数学和艺术、音乐以及漆黑夜空中的满天星斗一样，可以美轮美奂。 Text A: Sentence comprehension Sentence Translation 3. Brain scans of mathematicians show that gazing at formulae considered beautiful by the beholder elicits activity in the same emotional region as great art and music. (Para. 4) 对数学家的大脑扫描显示，当凝视他们认为美丽的公式时，被激发的大脑情感区域，与欣赏伟大的艺术和音乐时激发的区域相同。 Text A: Sentence comprehension Sentence Translation 4. The power of an equation to connect what seem like completely unrelated realms of mathematics comes up often. (Para. 8) 一个等式常常具有将看似完全无关的数学领域联系起来的力量。 Text A: Sentence comprehension Sentence Translation 5. More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Greek mathematician, Euclid, solved a numerical puzzle so beautifully that it still makes Neale smile every time it comes to mind. (Para. 10) 2000多年前，古希腊数学家欧几里得完美地解决了一个数字难题，尼尔每念及此都会欣然而笑。 Text A: Sentence comprehension Sentence Translation 6. With a grasp of the formulae, we can understand blood flow in the