The Weil Conjectures The Weil Conjectures

The Weil Conjectures

On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown

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A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick

"A wonderful book." --Patti Smith

"I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times


An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspiration


Karen Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings—Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician—while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it’s the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures—an elegant blend of biography and memoir and a meditation on the creative life.

Personal, revealing, and approachable, The Weil Conjectures eloquently explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes the most inexplicable pursuits turn out to be the most rewarding.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2019
July 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
226
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
4.4
MB
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