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  • Emile Borel
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (January 7, 1871 in Saint-Affrique, France – February 3, 1956 in Paris, France) was a French mathematician and politician. Along with René-Louis 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... full article at wikipedia
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