Émile Borel

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Émile Borel was a pioneering French mathematician known for his foundational work in measure theory, probability, and the theory of functions.

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instanceOf French mathematician
human
mathematician
awardReceived Grand Prix of the French Academy of Sciences
surface form: Grand Prix des Sciences Mathématiques

Poncelet Prize
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1871-01-07
dateOfDeath 1956-02-03
describedBySource historical mathematics literature
educatedAt École Normale (Paris)
surface form: École Normale Supérieure
employer Sorbonne University
surface form: Université de Paris

École Normale (Paris)
surface form: École Normale Supérieure
familyName Borel
fieldOfWork game theory
mathematics
measure theory
probability theory
real analysis
theory of functions
givenName Émile
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Académie des Sciences
Académie française
Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
notableIdea Borel sets in real analysis
concept of normal numbers
measure-theoretic foundation of probability
notableWork Borel measure
Borel set
Borel set
surface form: Borel sigma-algebra

Borel–Cantelli lemmas
surface form: Borel–Cantelli lemma

Borel–Carathéodory theorem
Borel–Kolmogorov paradox
Borel–Lebesgue theorem
Borel’s game theory papers
theory of uniform distribution modulo 1
surface form: Borel’s normal number theorem

Borel–Kolmogorov paradox
surface form: Borel’s paradox

Borel–Cantelli lemmas
surface form: Borel’s strong law of large numbers formulation
placeOfBirth Aveyron
France
Saint-Affrique
placeOfDeath France
Paris
politicalParty Radical Party (France)
positionHeld Minister of the Navy of France
deputy in the French National Assembly
mayor of Saint-Affrique
sexOrGender male
workLocation Paris

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Arnaud Denjoy influencedBy Émile Borel
Henri Lebesgue influencedBy Émile Borel
Institut Henri Poincaré foundedBy Émile Borel