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МИНИСТЕРСТВО НАУКИ И ВЫСШЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ РФ
НОВОСИБИРСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ
Механико-математический факультет
M&Ms:
Movies and Maths
Учебно-методическое пособие
Новосибирск
2023
УДК 811.111
ББК Ш13(Ан)-923
Ш 590
Рецензенты:
доц. Н. Б. Туманова
канд. филол. наук, доц. Г. Т. Якушко
канд. филол. наук, доц. Ю. В. Трофимoва
канд. физ-мат. наук, доц. И. И. Тахонов
ст. преп. К. А. Насыбуллова
Шилова, В. В.
Ш590 M&Ms: Movies and Maths: учеб.-метод. пособие / В. В. Шилова ; Новосиб.
гос. ун-т. – Новосибирск : ИПЦ НГУ, 2023. – 58 с.
ISBN 978-5-4437-1450-9
Пособие предназначено для студентов второго курса бакалавриата
механико-математического факультета, достигших уровня английского языка
Intermediate, а также может применяться в группах Upper-Intermediate/Advanced.
Целью пособия является улучшение навыков аудирования и говорения у
студентов-математиков второго курса.
Пособие состоит из шести уроков, разработанных с применением
видеоматериала известных художественных кинофильмов и ютуб-видео.
Система упражнений охватывает следующие аспекты: общее понимание
фрагмента речи и вычленение отдельных слов в синтагме; расширение
словарного запаса; обсуждение интересных тем в математике.
Данное пособие может служить дополнительным материалом к основному
учебнику по курсу «Английский язык для математиков».
УДК 811.111
ББК Ш13(Ан)-923
ISBN 978-5-4437-1450-9 © Новосибирский государственный университет, 2023
CONTENTS
Unit 1. Gifted 4
Unit 2. A Beautiful Mind 11
Unit 3. Einstein and Eddington 21
Unit 4. Hidden Figures 27
Unit 5. Pi 35
Unit 6. The GR 41
Appendix. Scripts 51
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Unit 1
Gifted
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Lead-in
A. Look at the three pictures. Can you identify these people? What do they have in
common?
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B. In pairs or small groups, name as many prodigies as you can remember. Why are
they considered genius?
Viewing
A. Watch the scene from the movie Gifted. Can the protagonist, Mary, be considered
a wonder child? What can you say about the institution shown in the episode? The
professor she was introduced to?
B. Watch the scene again and fill in the gaps. Pay attention to the way the words are
reduced in speech.
Mary: So, what's this problem 1)_________ _________ _________ _________
_________ _________?
Mary’s grandmother: I don't know.
Mary: Is it like the problems Mom worked on?
Mary’s grandmother: Your mother didn't work on problems. She worked on just one
problem.
Mary: Just one? 2) _________ _________ _________?
Mary’s grandmother: Most of it. Look. These are the Millennium Problems. Seven
great and meaningful problems. Some mathematicians have worked their entire lives
3) _________ _________ _________.
Mary: Who's the dude with the beard?
Mary’s grandmother: That's not a dude. That's Grigori Perelman. He proved
the Poincaré conjecture. The only one of the seven proved. This...This is your mother's
problem.
Mary: Na... vi...
Mary’s grandmother: Navier-Stokes.
Mary: No picture. She didn't solve it?
Mary’s grandmother: No. She was close. 4) _________ _________ _________
_________ the Fields Medal...and probably shared a Nobel... considering
5) _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ for physics.
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Mary: Maybe I'll have my picture up here someday.
Mary’s grandmother: If you really desire it...you can have your picture there, darling.
I can help you. 6) _________ _________ _________ _________ _________
_________, but if you succeed...your name will live forever. ….Don't be smug,
Seymore.
Seymore: Well, 7) _________ _________ _________ _________ _________
_________.
Mary’s grandmother: She traveled yesterday. She slept in a strange bed.
8) _________ _________ _________ _________. At six years old she read Zimmer.
Seymore: Outstanding. How much did she comprehend? …So, Mary... I see you're
looking 9) _________ _________ _________ problem.
Mary: Little? It's big.
Seymore: Yeah.
Mary: Why are you so mad 10) _________ _________ _________ _________?
Mary’s grandmother: I'm not mad. 11) _________ _________ _________. Not with
you, dear. With that pompous ass, Shankland.
Mary: I knew that guy was gonna have a beard 12) _________ _________ _________
_________ _________ _________. Math teachers like to 13) _________ _________.
Mary’s grandmother: I 14) _________ _________ _________ _________ to this
in the first place. Did he really expect you to just walk in and be able to dissect... some
random, massive problem?
Mary: 15) _________ _________ _________ _________, if you ask me.
Mary’s grandmother: Why? Why do you say that?
Mary: It was wrong.
Mary’s grandmother: What?
Mary: Well, for starters, he forgot 16) _________ _________ _________ _________
_________ _________. It went downhill from there. The problem was unsolvable.
Maybe this school isn't as great as you think it is.
Seymore: Mary, 17) _________ _________ the problem was incorrect.
18) _________ _________ _________ _________ say anything?
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Mary: Frank says I'm not supposed to correct older people. …Nobody likes a smart-
ass.
C. Reductions. Listen to the following utterances from the scene again. Is there
a difference between the way they are written and pronounced?
1. Just one? Her entire life?
2. Some mathematicians have worked their entire lives to prove them.
3. She would have won the Fields Medal...and probably shared a Nobel.
4. Well, she has had plenty of time.
5. Give her a chance.
6. I should have never agreed to this in the first place.
7. Why didn’t you say anything?
D. Match the utterances from exercise C and the following peculiarities of
pronunciation.
Example: Just one? Her entire life? – dropping initial [h] in pronouns
1) dropping plosive sounds, for instance [t], [d], at the end of a word:
I din’ do anything – I didn’t do anything
You an’ me – You and me
2) dropping initial [h] in HAVE in perfect forms:
I’ve done that – I have done that
You should’ve seen it/ You should’a seen it – You should have seen it
3) dropping initial [h] in pronouns:
Tell ’er I’m here – Tell her I am here
E. Listen again to the utterances in C. Repeat them after the speaker in the scene.
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Vocabulary
A. Watch the scene again. What do these phrases mean in the context?
to comprehend smth. to dissect a problem
in the first place to go downhill
to take focus and hard work a meaningful problem
to prove a conjecture all of a sudden
a massive problem for starters
B. Have you ever encountered a problem that was difficult to solve? Describe your
experience using the vocabulary from exercise A. Use the following pattern:
The most difficult problem to dissect was (…). I forgot the negative sign and it went
downhill from there …
Grammar
A. Study the example from the scene and compare it with the alternative.
Example: She would’ve won the Fields Medal, and probably shared a Nobel,
considering what it would’ve meant for physics.
Compare: If she had solved the problem, she would have won the Fields Medal, and
probably shared a Nobel, considering what it would have meant for physics.
What is the difference? Which one is more informal?
B. Read more examples below. What do these sentences have in common with
conditional sentences?
1) Without the professor’s guidance, Dan would not be sure what to do in life.
2) Dan would have achieved a breakthrough in analytical geometry, but he has been
depressed for a long time.
3) Dan should listen to the professor, otherwise, he will end up in hospital.
C. Study the table below. Convert each sentence in the table into a conditional
following the examples below.
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Examples:
1) Without you, I will not succeed – If you don’t help me, I will not succeed
2) You are not a poet; otherwise, you would perfectly understand what I mean – If
you were a poet, you would perfectly understand what I mean
3) I would’ve been here sooner, but I had a flat tire on the way here – I would’ve been
here sooner if I hadn’t had a flat tire on the way here
Table
Implied conditionals
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Without
(implies the
if-clause)
Without you, I
will not succeed.
Without the sun, life as we
know it wouldn’t exist.
Without your help
yesterday, I wouldn’t have
managed to finish up the
report.
Otherwise
(introduces
the main
part)
You shouldn’t
get so worked
up, otherwise,
you will fail the
test.
You are not a poet;
otherwise, you would
perfectly understand what I
mean.
You didn’t try hard enough
on this invention last month,
otherwise, you would have
succeeded.
But
You can ignore
the task, but the
teacher will
notice.
I would tell him straight
away, but I’m not in your
shoes, so it’s up to you.
I would’ve been here sooner,
but I had a flat tire on the
way here.
D. Study the table again and answer the following questions.
1) What words, according to the table, can introduce implied conditionals?
2) Think about the meaning of these words. What do they have in common?
3) What time dimension – future, present or past – do the sentences in Type 1
belong? In Type 2? Type 3?
4) Which sentences in the table introduce an imaginary situation?
5) Can the imaginary part of the sentence describe a present situation? A past
situation?
6) Is the condition (if-clause) implied in all the sentences?
E. Complete the following sentences using your own ideas.
1) I would have gone on a trip to Cambridge last summer, but…
2) This experiment was conducted twice. Otherwise,…
3) Without the nanotechnology, …
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4) You should speak up when you meet your supervisor. Otherwise, …
5) I would have fixed your problem, but …
6) I was exhausted last night. Otherwise, I ….
7) Without university education, …
8) She would have solved the problem but…
Speaking
A. In the scene the Millennium problems are mentioned. In pairs, answer the
following questions:
1) What are the Millennium problems? Do you know about any attempts to solve
them?
2) What do you know about Grigori Perelman and his proof of the Poincare
conjecture?
3) Would you like to solve a Millennium problem?
B. Choose one Millennium problem – the list is provided below. Using the internet
and your own knowledge, make up a short 2-minute presentation of this problem.
Present the problem to the whole class outlining
● what the problem is about,
● the field of mathematics to which it belongs,
● some historical facts.
Use mathematical notations as you go along.
Millenium problems:
1. Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
2. Hodge conjecture
3. Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
4. P versus NP problem
5. Poincaré conjecture
6. Riemann hypothesis
7. Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
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