全新版大学英语第二版综合教程6 第1单元课后练习答案专用课件.ppt

Unit 1 Book 6 The Scientist Pre-reading tasks 1. What are the mysteries the speaker talks about in John Nash’s case? 2. What won John Nash the Nobel prize for Economics in 1994? 3. What was strange about John Nash when he was a little boy? 4. According to the speaker, what kind of ability does John Nash have when he is faced with a mathematical problem? 1. Two mysteries of the human mind---genius and madness back 2. The paper that he wrote when he was a graduate student in mathematics at Princeton. The paper became a pillar of game theory. In 1994 it earned him a Nobel prize in economics. back 3. He was never admitted into any---nobody ever wanted him on their baseball---softball team because he was so totally un-into sports. back 4. Not very long after he started thinking about a problem, he would have just a very clear vision of where the solution lay, though it might take a year or two to get there. back Cultural Notes Nobel prizes: annual monetary awards granted to individuals or institutions for outstanding contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology (生理学) or medicine, literature, international peace, and economic sciences. The Nobel prizes are internationally recognized as the most prestigious awards in each of these fields. The prizes were established by Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who set up a fund for them in his will. The first Nobel prizes were awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of Nobel’s death. Game theory: mathematical analysis of any situation involving a conflict of interest, with the intent of indicating the optimal choices that, under given conditions, will lead to a desired outcome. Although game theory has roots in the study of such well-known amusement