The Weil Conjectures is a study of French sibling geniuses André Weil, a 20th-century mathematician famous for his conjectures, and Simone Weil, a philosopher and political activist.

Bookshelf ‘The Weil Conjectures’ Review: Symbols and Suffering André sought truth in number theory and algebraic geometry. Simone found it in manual labor, religious meditation and self ...

The entire tower will come crashing down. “You can create a super monster counterexample that would break a lot of conjectures,” Hickman said. On the other hand, proving the Kakeya conjecture true ...

In “The Weil Conjectures,” Karen Olsson writes about her own love of math as well as the lives of the great mathematician André Weil and his sister, the philosopher and secular saint Simone Weil.

An artificial intelligence has disproved five mathematical conjectures – unproven theorems – despite not being equipped with any information about the problems. Adam Zsolt Wagner at Tel Aviv ...

The best conjectures usually have modest origins, such as Fermat’s casual note in the margin, but their implications and ramifications grow over the years. It also helps if the challenge can be stated ...

Karen Olsson will speak and sign copies of “The Weil Conjectures” at 7 p.m. Aug. 27 at BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar Blvd. The reading portion is free and open to the public.

The full implications of the new work, and of the two conjectures, will take time to sink in. Cosmic censorship imposes an odd disconnect between quantum gravity at the centers of black holes and ...