科技英语阅读习题答案汇总.doc

Unit 1 Mathematics Part I EST Reading Reading 1 (/article.cfm?id=what-is-russells-paradox Section A Pre-reading Task Warm-up Questions: Work in pairs and discuss the following questions. 1. Who is Bertrand Russell? Bertrand Arthur William Russell (b.1872 – d.1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His most influential contributions include his defense of logicism (the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic), his refining of the predicate calculus introduced by Gottl