Course book: Korneeva

1. Course book: Korneeva

Teacher: Maria Oberyukhtina
[email protected]

2. Important deadlines and points:

• To find on the website: Abstract samples (http://www.eng.math.msu.su/special_language.htm)
• 1. Equations and Inequalities: Elementary Problems and Theorems in Algebra and Number Theory etc.
• Summaries/reports: by the 17th of November (2 or 3 pages + a report on the topic)
• A test in October/November: translating a text in the written form
• “Topical” issues to discuss: by the 1st and the 8th of December (at the latest): Modern Problems of
Mechanics and Mathematics and the Area of My Research
• Glossary project (словарь с терминами-словосочетаниями из своей научной статьи): min. 30 word
combinations/terms - by the 30th of November (to email)

3. Exam requirements and procedures

Marks ro get during the semester
2 marks before the exam
3 marks during the exam
- An abstract of an academic paper to write
Reading (mind the intonation, phonetics, syntactical
division of the sentences, pauses) +answering
questions
- A report on the same topic to be delivered
-a speech+ a conversation with a professor
concerning a “topic”
- translation of a text in the written form

4. h/work ex.p5-10 questions

• Can you formulate the equation of tilted parabola? Can we draw one? Ax2 +BXY+Y2C + CfX+EY +D = 0
• Why could he not have been considered the first man to formulate the law of refraction?
• Harriot did establish some important mathematical signs or notations looking like this.
What were they supposed to mean?
• What is noosphere?
Who suggested introducing such a term into
science? What do we know about him (or her)?
What values can we find using Viete`s achievements in Maths?
What was used to mean variables in Viete`s and Harriot`s systems of notation?

5.

Portrait gallery
Listen, learn and discuss which picture is extra - in this or that
way

6.

FOR or
IN
ORDE
R
TO/S
O
THAT?

7.

Guess what is true about the teacher and your colleagues and what
is not
-has moved into (заселился) the university hostel (dormitory)
-`s/`ve learned some Turkish
-`s/`ve tried a new dish this week
Ask your colleagues to tell you one story that is true and another
story which is false. Guess which is which exactly.

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Why do you think geometry held an exclusive position in
the 17th century?
Why did mathematicians start to trust calculus and algebra
a century after Descartes?
What is the role of Descartes in the shift of attitudes to
symbolic manipulations?

12.

Explain his quotations:
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare
Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
With me everything turns into mathematics.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly,
not only as to the things which I have explained but also to those which I
have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.”
Text: What do almost all of us have in
common with Poincare? Coffee!

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The most curious
The toughest
person
The merriest person
The person with
the least accent
The best-dressed
Enjoys the longest
books/articles
The funniest
The Most
hardworking
The friendliest
The most
interested in art
The best friend
The most artistic
Most
eager(wanting)to
succeed
The youngest
Done the most
dangerous/interest
ing activity
Been to the most
interesting/danger
ous place
The best in (any
subject)
The earliest
the
most adventurou
s eater
(https://www.bu
zzfeed.com/jasm
innahar/only-anadventurouseater-has-tried)
The quietest