Gita Satsangh : Quotes from Mathematician Andre Weil

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advaitin, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk> wrote: a book

review by Prof. V.S. Varadarajan

> (Prof. of Maths. UCLA) of `The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician

> – Autobiography of Andre Weil'. Prof. Andre Weil (1906 – 1998)

> One can read the full review in

> http://www.ams.org/notices/199904/rev-varadarajan.pdf

 

 

Namaste Krishnamurtyji,

 

Thank you for the delightful detour to Gita's devotees.

 

He is credited with this quotation:

 

"God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists

since we cannot prove it."

 

 

For more on how others saw him, one can visit:

 

http://www.netacc.net/~fairplay/weil.htm

http://www.ams.org/notices/199904/199904-toc.html

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder