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Émile Borel

1871 - 1956

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Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (French: [bɔʁɛl]; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician and politician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Borel has received more than 265,015 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Borel is the 145th most popular mathematician (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,043rd most popular biography from France (down from 849th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Mathematician.

Émile Borel is most famous for his proof that a casino cannot make money in the long run.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Émile Borel ranks 145 out of 1,004. Before him are William Oughtred, Vincenzo Viviani, Harald Bohr, Andrew Wiles, Mary Jackson, and Johannes Trithemius. After him are Henri Lebesgue, Zoia Ceaușescu, Andrey Markov, Edward Norton Lorenz, Wang Chong, and Joseph Liouville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Émile Borel ranks 25. Before him are Georges Rouault, František Kupka, Giacomo Balla, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, and Stjepan Radić. After him are Maurice Garin, William Stern, Cordell Hull, Leonid Andreyev, Ernst Zermelo, and Walter Bradford Cannon. Among people deceased in 1956, Émile Borel ranks 29. Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi, Bolesław Bierut, Anastasio Somoza García, Wilhelm Miklas, Joseph Wirth, and Alexander Dovzhenko. After him are Daniel Swarovski, Elisabeth of Romania, August Kubizek, Juan Negrín, Marie Laurencin, and Yakub Kolas.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Borel ranks 1,043 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise of Lorraine (1553), Jacques Clément (1567), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Ernest Chausson (1855), Suzanne Lenglen (1899), and Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696). After him are Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), Victor, Prince Napoléon (1862), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Danielle Darrieux (1917), Marie Duplessis (1824), and Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Émile Borel ranks 28. Before him are Charles Hermite (1822), Girard Desargues (1591), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Étienne Bézout (1730), and Jacques Hadamard (1865). After him are Henri Lebesgue (1875), Joseph Liouville (1809), Michel Rolle (1652), André Weil (1906), Pierre Bouguer (1698), and René Thom (1923).

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