I don't see any place in the article where they say that Weil was the first to form a connection between numbers and geometry. The only thing close they say:
Weil suggested that sentences written in the language of number theory could be translated into the language of geometry, and vice versa.
And since this is elaborated upon later on in the article I don't see anything wrong with the sentence.
My problem is not with this sentence, but with this passage from the second paragraph:
> ... number theory is the study of numbers [...]
> Geometry, on the other hand, studies shapes [...]
> But French mathematician André Weil had a penetrating
> insight that the two subjects are in fact closely related.
This pretty clearly says Weil came up with the idea of connecting number theory and geometry - or at least connecting them closely - which is very, very wrong.
Weil suggested that sentences written in the language of number theory could be translated into the language of geometry, and vice versa.
And since this is elaborated upon later on in the article I don't see anything wrong with the sentence.