The Weil Conjectures: On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson
English | July 11th, 2019 | ISBN: 0374287619 | 226 pages | EPUB | 1.19 MB
Simone Weil: famous French philosopher, writer, political activist, mystic – and sister to André, one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. For Karen Olsson, who studied mathematics at Harvard only to turn to writing as a vocation, the lives and obsessions of these two extraordinary siblings returned her to the intellectual passions of her youth.