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Borel (author) Borel (18th-century, Rouen – ? ) was an 18th-century French playwright from Normandy. Already made known by some poetic essays and an epigram in Latin entitled ''Nicetas'', crowned by the Académie des Palinods in 1749, Borel Borel addressed ...

, 18th-century French playwright *

Borel Borel may refer to: People * Borel (author), 18th-century French playwright * Jacques Brunius, Borel (1906–1967), pseudonym of the French actor Jacques Henri Cottance * Émile Borel (1871 – 1956), a French mathematician known for his founding ...

(1906–1967), pseudonym of the French actor Jacques Henri Cottance *

Émile Borel Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Math ...

(1871 – 1956), a French mathematician known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability *

Armand Borel Armand Borel (21 May 1923 – 11 August 2003) was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 1957 to 1993. He worked in alg ...

(1923 – 2003), a Swiss mathematician *

Mary Grace Borel Mary Grace Borel Shumate Marshal Sweet Paxton (October 31, 1915May 18, 1998) was an American socialite and film actress. She was the granddaughter of Antoine Borel, a San Francisco banker and consul general of Switzerland, and her family was pr ...

(1915 – 1998), American socialite

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Borel (crater) Borel is a tiny lunar impact crater located in the southeast part of Mare Serenitatis. It was named after French mathematician Émile Borel. To the northeast is the crater Le Monnier and to the southeast is the crater Abetti. Borel was previous ...

, a lunar crater, named after Émile Borel

Mathematics

Borel algebra In mathematics, a Borel set is any set in a topological space that can be formed from open sets (or, equivalently, from closed sets) through the operations of countable union, countable intersection, and relative complement. Borel sets are named ...

, operating on Borel sets, named after Émile Borel, also: **

Borel measure In mathematics, specifically in measure theory, a Borel measure on a topological space is a measure that is defined on all open sets (and thus on all Borel sets). Some authors require additional restrictions on the measure, as described below. F ...

, the measure on a Borel algebra *

Borel distribution The Borel distribution is a discrete probability distribution, arising in contexts including branching processes and queueing theory. It is named after the French mathematician Émile Borel. If the number of offspring that an organism has is Pois ...

, a discrete probability distribution, also named after Émile Borel *

Borel subgroup In the theory of algebraic groups, a Borel subgroup of an algebraic group ''G'' is a maximal Zariski closed and connected solvable algebraic subgroup. For example, in the general linear group ''GLn'' (''n x n'' invertible matrices), the subgroup ...

, in the theory of algebraic groups, named after Armand Borel

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Borel (surname) Borel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrien Borel (1886–1966), psychiatrist and psychanalyst *Aldo Borel (1912–1979), Italian football player * André Borel d'Hauterive (1812–1896), French historian *Armand Borel (19 ...

, a surname *

Etablissements Borel Etablissements Borel was a French aircraft manufacturer of the early twentieth century. It was founded by Gabriel Borel (1880–?1960) and manufactured a number of monoplane designs between 1909 and 1914. The factory, located at Mourmelon was tem ...

, an aircraft manufacturing company founded by Gabriel Borel

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