Borel may refer to:
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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
An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. ...
, 18th-century French playwright
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Borel (1906–1967), pseudonym of the French actor Jacques Henri Cottance
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Émile Borel (1871 – 1956), a French mathematician known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability
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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 ...
(1923 – 2003), a Swiss mathematician
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Mary Grace Borel (1915 – 1998), American socialite
Places
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Borel (crater), a lunar crater, named after Émile Borel
Mathematics
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Borel algebra, operating on Borel sets, named after Émile Borel, also:
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Borel measure, the measure on a Borel algebra
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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 P ...
, a discrete probability distribution, also named after Émile Borel
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Borel subgroup, in the theory of algebraic groups, named after Armand Borel
Other uses
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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 (1 ...
, a surname
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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
See also
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Borrel
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Borrell
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