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Émile Borel
French mathematician and politician (1871-1956)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 January 1871
- Died
- 3 February 1956
- Conflict
- World War I, World War II
- Place of birth
- Saint-Affrique
- Place of death
- 14th arrondissement of Paris, Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Émile
- Family name
- Borel
- Spouse
- Camille Marbo
- Field of work
- probability theory, mathematics, measure theory, game theory, politics
- Occupation
- mathematician, politician, university teacher, French resistance fighter, Esperantist, researcher, physicist
- Position held
- Q59710810, Minister of the French Navy, president, president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- France
- Awards
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Croix de guerre 1939–1945, Honorary Member of the World Esperanto Association, Resistance Medal, CNRS Gold medal, Poncelet Prize, Grand prix des sciences mathématiques, Cours Peccot, honorary doctor of Sofia University
- academic thesis
- Q66228453
- assessment
- agrégation of mathematics
- birth name
- Félix Edouard Justin Émile Borel
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- Armand Borel, Émile Borel
- doctoral advisor
- Jean Gaston Darboux
- doctoral student
- Georges Valiron, Henri Lebesgue, Paul Montel, Robert Deltheil, Paul Dienes, Ervand Kogbetliantz, Tadeusz Ważewski, Ernest Esclangon, René Gosse, Henri Milloux, Francis Perrin, René Risser
- educated at
- École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- employer
- University of Paris, University of Lille
- member of
- French Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Romanian Academy, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- member of political party
- Radical-Socialist and Radical Republican Party
- name in native language
- Émile Borel
- notable work
- Heine–Borel theorem, Borel algebra, Borel summation, Borel–Cantelli lemma, Borel measure, Borel hierarchy, Borel–Kolmogorov paradox, Borel–Carathéodory theorem, Borel conjecture, Borel subgroup, Borel distribution, Borel isomorphism
- place of burial
- Q66225590
- place of detention
- Fresnes Prison
- relative
- Paul Appell, Pierre Appell
- student
- Jeanne Rouvière, Georgios Remoundos
- student of
- Jean Gaston Darboux
- topic's main category
- Category:Émile Borel (mathematician)
- work location
- Paris
- writing language
- French
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