新视野大学英语第一册第8单元sectionA U-08A.ppt

Birth of Bright Ideas;Birth of Bright Ideas;Lead-in;Lead-in;Lead-in;To be continued;Lead-in;Lead-in;Lead-in;Pre-reading Activities;Richard Wagner;; Henri Poincare (1854-1912), agreat French mathematics and theoretical science professor at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), had a highly original influence on the development of pure and applied mathematics. He also worked on functions that changed celestial mechanics, helped pioneer algebraic topology and co-discovered the special theory of relativity. ; Descartes (1596-1650), a