Amazing Mathematicians: A2-B1
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun
René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’
Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works
Carl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’
Charles Babbage who invented computers
Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program
BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 8,351
Headword count: 790
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Amazing Mathematicians - HarperCollins UK
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Introduction
The Grading Scheme
Galileo
René Descartes
Isaac Newton
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
Keep Reading
Glossary
Copyright
About the Publisher
INTRODUCTION
Collins Amazing People Readers are collections of short stories. Each book presents the life story of five or six people whose lives and achievements have made a difference to our world today. The stories are carefully graded to ensure that you, the reader, will both enjoy and benefit from your reading experience.
You can choose to enjoy the book from start to finish or to dip into your favourite story straight away. Each story is entirely independent.
After every story a short timeline brings together the most important events in each person’s life into one short report. The timeline is a useful tool for revision purposes.
Words which are above the required reading level are underlined the first time they appear in each story. All underlined words are defined in the glossary at the back of the book. Levels 1 and 2 take their definitions from the Collins COBUILD Essential English Dictionary and levels 3 and 4 from the Collins COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary.
To support both teachers and learners, additional materials are available online at www.collinselt.com/readers.
The Amazing People Club®
Collins Amazing People Readers are adaptations of original texts published by The Amazing People Club. The Amazing People Club is an educational publishing house. It was founded in 2006 by educational psychologist and management leader Dr Charles Margerison and publishes books, eBooks, audio books, iBooks and video content, which bring readers ‘face to face’ with many of the world’s most inspiring and influential characters from the fields of art, science, music, politics, medicine and business.
THE GRADING SCHEME
The Collins COBUILD Grading Scheme has been created using the most up-to-date language usage information available today. Each level is guided by a brand new comprehensive grammar and vocabulary framework, ensuring that the series will perfectly match readers’ abilities.
For more information on the Collins COBUILD Grading Scheme, including a full list of the grammar structures found at each level, go to www.collinselt.com/readers/gradingscheme.
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Galileo
1564–1642
the man who believed the Earth went around the Sun
I believed that the Earth orbited the Sun. People were afraid of my theories at the time and called me a heretic. But now they call me ‘The Father of Modern Science’.
I was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564. I was the oldest of six children, but unfortunately, only three of us survived childhood. My father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a well-known musician and he called me Galileo. When I was 8 years old, my family moved to Florence.