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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 245,377 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Émile Borel is the 119th most popular mathematician (up from 120th in 2019), the 851st most popular biography from France (up from 862nd in 2019) and the 25th 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 119 out of 823. Before him are Charles Hermite, Grigori Perelman, Josef Stefan, Christopher Clavius, Hermann Weyl, and Leonid Kantorovich. After him are Aloysius Lilius, Edward Norton Lorenz, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Andrew Wiles, Marian Rejewski, and Brook Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Émile Borel ranks 22. Before him are Lesya Ukrainka, Heinrich Mann, Theodore Dreiser, Giacomo Balla, Georges Rouault, and František Kupka. After him are Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Maurice Garin, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Stjepan Radić, Cordell Hull, and Stephen Crane. Among people deceased in 1956, Émile Borel ranks 22. Before him are Alfred Kinsey, Kenji Mizoguchi, Konstantin Päts, Bela Lugosi, Risto Ryti, and H. L. Mencken. After him are Josef Hoffmann, Reinhold Glière, Wilhelm Miklas, Bolesław Bierut, Joseph Wirth, and Anastasio Somoza García.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Borel ranks 851 out of 6,011. Before him are Guillaume de Nogaret (1260), Marcel Carné (1906), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Christina of Lorraine (1565), Jules Ferry (1832), and Jérôme Lalande (1732). After him are Louis Néel (1904), Jacques Callot (1592), Balthus (1908), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Stéphane Audran (1932), and Jean-Luc Nancy (1940).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Émile Borel ranks 25. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Girard Desargues (1591), and Charles Hermite (1822). After him are Henri Lebesgue (1875), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Michel Rolle (1652), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Joseph Liouville (1809), and Gabriel Lamé (1795).

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