《科技英语文献阅读与翻译》UnitTextA讲稿.ppt

Hernando Cortés He was the conquistador who became famous for leading the military expedition that initiated the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Cortés was part of the generation of European colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. * Unit One Mathematics * Hernando Cortés * Unit One Mathematics * Thomas Schelling * Unit One Mathematics * Thomas Schelling * Unit One Mathematics * Thomas Schelling Thomas Crombie Schelling (born on 14 April 1921) is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics (shared with Robert Aumann) for “having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis”. * Unit One Mathematics * Thomas Schelling Schelling received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1951. Schelling's most famous book, The Strategy of Conflict (1960), has pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior and is considered one of the hundred books that have been most influential in the West since 1945. In this book he introduced the concept of the focal point, now commonly called the Schelling point. Schelling's economic theories about war were extended in Arms and Influence (1966). * Unit One Mathematics * Winston Churchill * Unit One Mathematics * The Big Three * Unit One Mathematics * Winston Churchill He was the English statesman and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Well-known as an orator, strategist, and politician, Churchill was one of the most important leaders in modern British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature for his many books on English and world history. Sir Winston Churchill was voted