Binet is surname of French origin, shared by the following people: *

Alfred Binet Alfred Binet (; 8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to ...

, a 19th-century French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test. **The Stanford-Binet IQ test is partially named after Alfred Binet. * Charles Henri Joseph Binet (1869–1936), Catholic archbishop and Cardinal from France. *

Charles Binet-Sanglé Charles Binet-Sanglé (4 July 1868 – 14 November 1941) was a French people, French military doctor and psychologist, who notably was the first to broadly and thoroughly question the mental health of Jesus, which he did in his four-volume work ' ...

(1868–1941), a French military doctor and psychologist. * Etienne Binet, a 17th-century French Jesuit author. *

Jacques Philippe Marie Binet Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (; 2 February 1786 – 12 May 1856) was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical founda ...

, an 18th-century French mathematician. **

Binet's formula In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted , form a sequence, the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start the sequence from ...

for the Fibonacci sequence is named after Jacques Binet. **The Cauchy-Binet formula of linear algebra is partially named after Jacques Binet. *Jean-Auguste-Gustave Binet (pen name

Binet-Valmer Jean-Auguste-Gustave Binet (3 June 1875 – 20 April 1940), also known as Binet-Valmer, was a Franco-Swiss novelist and journalist. The trademark element of his style was the almost clinical precision with which he dissected the psychologies and ...

), a Franco-Swiss writer *

Jocelyne Binet Jocelyne Binet (27 September 1923 – 13 January 1968) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. She studied in Montreal and Paris, France, and returned to compose and teach music in Canada. Biography Binet was born in East Angus ...

, a Canadian pianist, composer and music teacher. *

Laurent Binet Laurent Binet (born 19 July 1972) is a French writer and university lecturer. His work focuses on the modern political scene in France. Biography The son of a historian,Valérie Trierweiler, October 18, 2010"Laurent Binet, retour sur un succès" ...

(born 1972), a French writer and university lecturer

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