Émile Borel
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| Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel | |
 Émile Borel
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| Born | January 7, 1871 Saint-Affrique, France |
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| Died | February 3, 1956 (aged 85) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Mathematician, Politician |
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (January 7, 1871 in Saint-Affrique, Aveyron – February 3, 1956 in Paris)[1] was a French mathematician and politician.
Along with René-Louis Baire and Henri Lebesgue, he was among the pioneers of measure theory and its application to probability theory. The concept of a Borel set is named in his honor. One of his books on probability introduced the amusing thought experiment that entered popular culture under the name infinite monkey theorem or the like. He also published a number of research papers on game theory.
In 1913 and 1914 he bridged the gap between hyperbolic geometry and special relativity with expository work.
In the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s he was active in politics. From 1924 to 1936, he was a member of the French National Assembly. In 1925, he was Minister of Marine. During the Second World War he was a member of the French Resistance.
Besides a crater on the Moon, the following entities are named after him:
[edit] References
- ^ May, Kenneth (1970-80). "Borel, Émile". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 302-305. ISBN 0684101149.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Émile Borel", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Émile Borel in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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