Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Weil's influence on Michel Serres

I am constantly amazed at the number of people that have been influenced by Weil.

The late philosopher Michel Serres, member of the French Academy and philosophy professor at Stanford left mathematics to study philosophy after reading Gravity and Grace.  
See:  https://news.stanford.edu/2019/06/19/renowned-french-philosopher-michel-serres-dies-88/

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Simone Weil's papers



In the last week I have received two inquiries about how to locate the original of Weil's writings. So I thought I would try to post this more widely.



The Institute for Advanced Studies in their Historical Studies - Social Science Library located in Princeton has a microfilm copy:


Their catalogue https://library.ias.edu/hs lists the following:

The link below will take you to the Bibliothèque nationale de France record for her archives -


https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc58821s



Note you need to email the BnF if you are interested in making arrangement to view her papers.