Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel
Émile Borel (
1871-
1956) was a
French mathematician. Along with René 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 the
1920s,
1930s, and
1940s he was active in politics, and during the
Second World War he was a member of the Resistance.
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