文档介绍：Lesson 6
A Beautiful Mind
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CATALOGUE
Background Information
Outline
Language Points
Keys
Oral Practice And Discussion
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1. Introduction to the Author
Sylvia Nasar discovered the remarkable
story of Nobel laureate John Nash as an
economics reporter for the New York
Times. A veteran business journalist
who had been on the staffs of Fortune
and . News & World Report, she was fascinated by Nash’s intellectual achievements and triumph over schizophrenia(精神分裂症). Her article, The Lost Years of the Nobel Laureate, depicted his life as a three-act drama on the mysteries of the mind: genius, madness, reawakening.
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Background Information
2. Introduction to John Nash
John Nash was a mathematical genius
whose 27-page dissertation, “Non-
Cooperative Games”, written in 1950
when he was 21, would be honored with
the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.
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His most important work had been in game theory
(博弈论), which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel mittee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash’s name inevitably came up—only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a mad man. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.
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Outline
Comments on Nash
Descriptions
Genius
(Para. 4)
Nash’s genius was of that mysterious variety more often associated with music and art than with the oldest of all sciences: It was not merely that his mind worked faster, that his memory was more retentive, or that his power of concentration was greater. The flashes of intuition were non-rational.
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Originality
(Para. 5)
Nash acquired his knowledge of mathematics not mainly form studying what other mathematicians had discovered, but by rediscovering their truths for himself.
Eager to astound, he was always on the lookout for the really big proble