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

  • Written by Scott Taylor, Professor of Mathematics, Colby College
The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educatorsAndré 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, CC BY-SA

Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was always bad at math.” I suppress...

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