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Antoine Borel Antoine Borel (December 29, 1840 – March 26, 1915) was a Swiss-American banker who ran the eponymous Borel & Co., headquartered in San Francisco, California. He was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and emigrated to the United States in 1862, w ...

(1840–1915), a Swiss-born American businessman *

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 *

Borel (author) Borel (18th-century, Rouen – ? ) was an 18th-century French playwright from Normandy. Already made known by some poetic essays and an epigram An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The wor ...

, 18th-century French playwright *

Borel Borel may refer to: People * Antoine Borel (1840–1915), a Swiss-born American businessman * Armand Borel (1923–2003), a Swiss mathematician * Borel (author), 18th-century French playwright * Borel (1906–1967), pseudonym of the French actor ...

(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 people, French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability. Biograp ...

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

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 pro ...

(1915–1998), American socialite *

Pascal Borel Pascal Borel (born 26 September 1978) is a German football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. In 1999, Borel earned two caps for Germany at the U21 level. Playing career Borel was born in Karlsruhe. He played for FC Germania Fr ...

(born 1978), German footballer *

Pierre Borel Pierre Borel (; – 1671) was a French chemist, alchemist, physician, and botanist. Biography Borel was born in Castres . He became a doctor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in 1640. In 1654, he became physician to the King ...

, 17th-century French chemist

Places

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 previ ...

, a lunar crater, named after Émile Borel

Mathematics

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

, 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. ...

, 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 Poi ...

, 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 subgr ...

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

Other uses

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

, a surname * Etablissements Borel, an aircraft manufacturing company founded by Gabriel Borel

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