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Also Known As Félix-Édouard-Justin-Émile Borel
Born January 7, 1871 • Saint-Affrique • France
Died February 3, 1956 (aged 85) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Picard’s theorem • function • game theory • measure theory • complex analysis
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Charles-Émile Picard.
Charles-Émile Picard
French mathematician
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
John Nash
John Nash
American mathematician
Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Lloyd Shapley, 2012.
Lloyd Shapley
American mathematician
Blackwell, David
David Blackwell
American statistician and mathematician
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
British mathematician
Aumann, Robert J.
Robert J. Aumann
Israeli mathematician
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician
Richard E. Stearns
American mathematician and computer scientist
Selten, Reinhard
Reinhard Selten
German mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
pope
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician

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