THE WEIL CONJECTURES

Karen Olssons stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings?Simone, a philo sopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician?while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying ma th. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindle s one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, its the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments o f insight....[Read more]