For two years, he taught undergraduate mathematics at Lehigh University, where he was unappreciated, overworked and poorly paid, although he did not have to worry about being drafted, unlike his American students. He spent the remainder of the war in the United States, where he was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. In January 1941, Weil and his family sailed from Marseille to New York. He then went to Clermont-Ferrand, where he managed to join his wife Г‰veline, who had been living in German-occupied France. After the fall of France in June 1940, he met up with his family in Marseille, where he arrived by sea. Sentenced to five years, he requested to be attached to a military unit instead, and was given the chance to join a regiment in Cherbourg. It was in the military prison in Bonne-Nouvelle, a district of Rouen, from February to May, that Weil completed the work that made his reputation. He was charged with failure to report for duty, and was imprisoned in Le Havre and then Rouen. Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940. Weil was mistakenly arrested in Finland at the outbreak of the Winter War on suspicion of spying however, accounts of his life having been in danger were shown to be exaggerated. His wife Г‰veline returned to France without him. Weil was in Finland when World War II broke out he had been traveling in Scandinavia since April 1939. He married Г‰veline de Possel (nГ©e Г‰veline Gillet) in 1937. After teaching for one year at Aix-Marseille University, he taught for six years at University of Strasbourg. Aside from mathematics, Weil held lifelong interests in classical Greek and Latin literature, in Hinduism and Sanskrit literature: he had taught himself Sanskrit in 1920.

Starting in 1930, he spent two academic years at Aligarh Muslim University in India. While in Germany, Weil befriended Carl Ludwig Siegel. He studied in Paris, Rome and GГ¶ttingen and received his doctorate in 1928. Simone Weil, who would later become a famous philosopher, was Weil's younger sister and only sibling. rather than enabling us to do more than we could previously.AndrГ© Weil was born in Paris to agnostic Alsatian Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire after the Franco-Prussian War in 1870вЂ“71.

And I note that the usual books on 'real analysis' seem inordinately devoted to scaring us and making us worry about the legitimacy of doing anything at all. It wouldn't explain the number theoretic motivation. (Systematic reading of whole books about functional analysis or measure-and-integration is surely not necessary, although, yes, of course, such background would provide a 'complete-logical' background. Having it be the second more-advanced book one has read on the subject is desirable. as his foundation.ДЄlthough Weil's book contains a number of things difficult to find elsewhere, it is also rather quirky, and in a fashion not excessively reader-friendly. After reading that more-conventional treatment, one will have an idea what Weil is accomplishing by seeming (!) to emphasize measure. Rather, I think one might be happiest with a prior reading of a serious (as opposed to easy-intro) book on Alg No Th, such as Serge Lang's. and it is just the same as needed for Iwasawa-Tate's rewriting of Hecke's treatment of L-functions of number fields. If anything, an attentive reading of the initial parts of Weil show exactly what one needs of invariant measures and integrals. While it is true that Weil appears to require that his reader appreciate Haar measure, I think there is serious risk of over-interpreting this.

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