[HM] Andre and Simone Weil

Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu)
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:43:00 -0400 (EDT)

Has anyone translated into English any of the letters Andre Weil sent
from Rouen to his sister Simone in 1940, describing his mathematics?

Two such letters (one quoted in its entirety and one excerpted) appear
in the original French in Weil's Collected Papers (volume I, pages 244-255).
My French is not so fluent, so before I dive in with dictionary in hand
I thought I'd ask whether anyone knows of an existing English translation.

I tried using Altavista to see if perchance the text exists on-line in
either French or English; amusingly, the search for "Weil Rouen 1940"
turned up the home-page of an artist named Mandeville who was born in
Rouen, had his first shows during the period 1939-1941, and whose first
post-World War II exhibition was held in 1958 at the "Galerie Andre Weil"
in Paris.

Jim Propp
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin