笛卡尔（1569-1650），生于法国西部，8岁时被送到欧洲当时最有名的学校之一的拉夫赖公学学习。1616年获得法学硕士学位。1639年，他用拉丁文写了他最著名的著作《第一哲学沉思录》。1644年出版了《哲学原理》，1649年出版了《论灵魂的激情》。

我们心中的英雄是--Richard Feynman

我们心中的英雄是--Richard Feynman

Surfaces are among the most common and easily visualized mathematical objects, and their study brings into focus fundamental ideas, concepts, and methods from geometry, topology, complex analysis, Morse theory, and group theory. At the same time, many of those notions appear in a technically simpler and more graphic form than in their general “natural” settings. The first, prim...(展开全部)

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.

奥登的评论，可同时参考他的The Dyer's hand中的"The Shakesperian City”部分。他的评论比较重视基督教心理学对莎士比亚的影响。他对《威尼斯商人》的讨论相当有意思。