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Mini-dictionary Beauty in Science

to generate a current in a wire

генерувати струм у дроті

to extend the principle

розширити принцип

to unify fundamental forces

об’єднати основні сили

fraction of a second

мить

decay process

процес розпаду

the law of conservation of parity

закон збереження рівності

theory of relativity

теорія відносності

gravitation

гравітація

evidence

докази, свідчення

to contradict experimental data

суперечити експериментальним даним

to fit experiment

підганяти під експеримент

to retain the form

зберігати форму

electroweak theory

теорія електрослабких взаємодій

to exhibit mirror symmetry

проявляти дзеркальну симетрію

to quantify objectively

об’єктивно визначати кількість

electromagnetic force

електромагнітна сила

coordinates

координати

compatible

сумісний

to reflect an intuition

відображати уявлення/знання

Unit 7: Mathematics.

" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." Albert Einstein

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." Bertrand Russell

WARM-UP

  1. Think of as many words as possible related to mathimatics. How important is mathematics to you?

  2. Work in pairs. Do the quiz to find out how much you know about the origins of mathematics.

Who invented math?

  1. Euclid collected theorems and proofs about polygons and angles - creating Euclidean geometry in a book called The……...

  1. Chords

  2. Elements

  3. Expansion

  4. Fundamentals

  1. Galileo said that mathematics is the language of …….. .

  1. God

  2. life

  3. nature

  4. the world

  1. The earliest known evidence of mathematics is ……….. .

  1. angle measurement

  2. counting

  3. matrices

  4. using zero

  1. By the 3rd century B.C., people in India were using the number zero. At first it was represented by a blank space. This was confusing, so it was replaced by a/an ……. .

  1. circle

  2. dot

  3. inverted v

  4. line

  1. Plato believed that mathematics exists …….. .

  1. because humans created it

  2. outside of mankind's ability to understand it

  3. whether or not humans understand it

  4. none of the above

  1. The fractions used by the ancient Egyptians differed from ours because ……..

  1. most of them used 1 in the numerator

  2. most of them used 1 in the denominator

  3. they were usually mixed fractions

  4. the ancient Egyptians did not use fractions

  1. The oldest written records of mathematics were originally located in ………

  1. China

  2. Egypt

  3. India

  4. Mesopotamia

  1. Leonhard Euler, creator of modern trigonometry, popularized the symbol for ………. .

  1. cube root

  2. factorial

  3. inequality

  4. pi

  1. Discuss the questions in your group.

  1. What famous mathematicians who studied or worked at our University do you know?

  2. What faculties of the KPI do relate to the subject of Maths?

  3. What social sciences is Maths connected with?

  4. When did people begin to use Maths?

  5. What is the role of paradoxes in the development of Maths?

  6. Do you think that to become a mathematician one has to have ability for maths?

  7. Can you give any advice how to develop ability for fast calculating?

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