Andre Weil
Andre Weil
André Weilwas an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was a founding member and the de facto early leader of the Bourbaki group. The philosopher Simone Weil was his sister...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth6 May 1906
CountryFrance
mean intuition different
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
time names feelings
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .
law crucial
What is crucial is there be laws.
people firsts mathematician
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
branches mathematics source
When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.
men morality rigour
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
past discovery ideas
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.
math devil existence
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.