The New Yorker

Letters from Our Readers

Judith Thurman’s article about my aunt, Simone Weil, repeats half-truths, exaggerations, and fantasies that have circulated for decades (Books, September 9th). The fantasy about my aunt’s “privileged” ...
The New Yorker

The Supreme Contradictions of Simone Weil

The French philosopher Simone Weil was a soul at odds with herself and with a world of affliction. The causes she espoused as a social activist and the faith she professed as a mystic were urgent to ...
Yahoo

The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, ...
Publishers Weekly

A Life in Letters

Simone Weil, edited by Robert Chenavier and André A. Devaux, trans. from the French by Nicholas Elliot. Belknap, $37.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-674-29237-6 This inessential collection traces the personal ...
The Conversation

The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th‑century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators

André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, respectively. Konrad Jacobs (right) and Anonymous (left) via Wikimedia Commons, ...