Unit 8 Section a Birth of Bright Ideas I. Background Information 1)Richard Wagner(1813-1883), the greatest composer of German opera, made a major addition to the nature of opera through his writings about and the creation of music drama. Music drama combines singing, orchestra, verse, story, drama and spectacle Wagner's works include the"The Ring of the Nibelung"(1853-1874), a set of four operas based on historical german stories 2)The Rhinegold, the first of the four operas in the"Ring"cycle, exemplifies Wagner,'s theory of music drama in its purest form 3)Henri Poincare(1854-1912), a great French mathematics and theoretical science professor at the Sorbonne(University of Paris), had a highly original influence on the development of pure and applied mathematics. He also worked on functions that changed celestial mechanics, helped pioneer algebraic topology and co-discovered the special theory of relativity 4)Descartes, Rene(1596-1650), a famous French philosopher, mathematician and scientist, was one of the most influential thinkers in history. He is considered the founder of both modern so he tried to develop a way to reach the truth He based his theory that the world is made up of mind and matter on a concept that came to him in a dream II Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It Main idea of the text Good ideas come from the unconscious mind or brain activity usually not controlled by Devices for developing it 1 Exemplification举例法 1) Take the example of Richard Wagner composing the opening to "Rhinegold".(Para. 4) 2)As a contrast, we may consider a famous story: the discovery by Henri Poincare,., of a new mathematical method called the Fuchsian functions. (Para. 5) 3)athird type of creative experience is exemplified by the dreams which came to Descartes at the age of twenty-three and determined his life path. ( Para. 6) Sequence of Time and Space(时空顺序法) You think about a problem until you're tired, forget it, maybe sleep on it and then flash When you aren't thinking about it, suddenly the answer arives as a gift from the gods For weeks, he sat at his table every day and spent an hour or two trying a great number of.. One night he drank.. Many ideas kept surging in his head; he could almost feel them pushing against one another, until two of them combined to form a stable combination when morning came. he had established the existence of one class of fuchsianUnit 8 Section A Birth of Bright Ideas I. Background Information 1）Richard Wagner (1813-1883), the greatest composer of German opera, made a major addition to the nature of opera through his writings about and the creation of music drama. Music drama combines singing, orchestra, verse, story, drama and spectacle. Wagner’s works include the “The Ring of the Nibelung” (1853-1874), a set of four operas based on historical German stories. 2）The Rhinegold, the first of the four operas in the “Ring” cycle, exemplifies Wagner's theory of music drama in its purest form. 3）Henri Poincare (1854-1912), a great French mathematics and theoretical science professor at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), had a highly original influence on the development of pure and applied mathematics. He also worked on functions that changed celestial mechanics, helped pioneer algebraic topology and co-discovered the special theory of relativity. 4）Descartes, Rene (1596-1650), a famous French philosopher, mathematician and scientist, was one of the most influential thinkers in history. He is considered the founder of both modern philosophy and analytic geometry. During his life, established ideas were being challenged, so he tried to develop a way to reach the truth. He based his theory that the world is made up of mind and matter on a concept that came to him in a dream. II Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It Main idea of the text Good ideas come from the unconscious mind or brain activity usually not controlled by us. Devices for developing it 1.Exemplification 举例法: 1）Take the example of Richard Wagner composing the opening to “Rhinegold”. (Para. 4) 2）As a contrast, we may consider a famous story: the discovery by Henri Poincare, …, of a new mathematical method called the Fuchsian functions. (Para. 5) 3) A third type of creative experience is exemplified by the dreams which came to Descartes at the age of twenty-three and determined his life path.(Para. 6) 2.Sequence of Time and Space (时空顺序法) You think about a problem until you’re tired, forget it, maybe sleep on it, and then flash! When you aren't thinking about it, suddenly the answer arrives as a gift from the gods. (Para.1) For weeks, he sat at his table every day and spent an hour or two trying a great number of …. One night he drank …Many ideas kept surging in his head; he could almost feel them pushing against one another, until two of them combined to form a stable combination.When morning came, he had established the existence of one class of Fuchsian functions