A few aphorisms from Simone Weil, the 20th century French mystic, from her book “Gravity and Grace,” which I bought at a fantastic bookstore in London this past summer because I saw it on the shelf ...
As a teenager, Simone Weil thought about killing herself. The reason? She could no longer keep up with her older brother André at math. “I didn’t mind having no visible successes,” she later explained ...
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, ...
The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th‑century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators
Boston College: Simone's Svengalis: A Petainist, a Missionary, and the Making of Simone Weil
Catholic scholars embrace Simone Weil for her Catholic conversion and writings on Christian mysticism. According to Boston College history professor Benjamin Braude, however, the prevailing narrative ...
Simone's Svengalis: A Petainist, a Missionary, and the Making 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 ...
Simone Biles (b. 1997) is an American gymnast who is considered by some to be the greatest in the history of the sport. She has won 11 Olympic medals and 30 world championship medals.