Émile Borel
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician and politician, originator of the Infinite monkey theorem.
Quotes
- Quels que soient les progrès des connaissances humaines, il y aura toujours place pour l'ignorance et par suite pour le hasard et la probabilité.
- Whatever the progress of human knowledge, there will always be room for ignorance, hence for chance and probability.
- Emile Borel (1914). Le hasard. Librairie Félix Alcan. p. 12-13.
- Whatever the progress of human knowledge, there will always be room for ignorance, hence for chance and probability.
Quotes about Borel
- Just as Borel, the pure mathematician interested in probability and statistics, had no counterpart in England so Keynes, the logician-economist, had no counterpart in France.
- Aldrich, John (December 2010). "Tales of two Societies – London and Paris 1860–1940". Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics 6 (2): 4–5.
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