Binet is surname of French origin, shared by the following people:
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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.
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Stanford-Binet IQ test is partially named after Alfred Binet.
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Charles Henri Joseph Binet (1869–1936), Catholic archbishop and Cardinal from France.
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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.
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Etienne Binet, a 17th-century French
Jesuit author.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
See also
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BiNet USA
BiNet USA (officially Bi/Net USA, The Bisexual Network of the USA Inc.) was an American national nonprofit bisexual community whose mission was to "facilitate the development of a cohesive network of bisexual communities, promote bisexual visibil ...
(Bisexual Network of the USA)
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Banet, another surname
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