References for Émile Borel

  1. K O May, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900534.html
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/74060/Emile-Borel
  3. Obituary in The Times.

Articles:

  1. S Callens, Ensemble, mesure et probabilité selon Emile Borel, Math. Inform. Sci. Humaines 110 (1990), 27-45.
  2. E F Collingwood, Emile Borel, J. London Math. Soc. 34 (1959), 488-512.
  3. E F Collingwood, Addendum: Emile Borel, J. London Math. Soc. 35 (1960), 384.
  4. L de Broglie, Notice sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Emile Borel, Acadèmie des Sciences (9 December 1957).
  5. M Fréchet, La vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Borel, Enseignement mathématique 11 (1965), 1-95.
  6. E Knobloch, Emile Borel as a probabilist, in The probabilist revolution Vol 1 (Cambridge Mass., 1987), 215-233.
  7. Lettres de René Baire à Emile Borel, Cahiers du Séminaire d'Histoire des Mathématiques 11 (Univ. Paris VI, Paris, 1990), 33-120.
  8. B Maurey and J-P Tacchi, La genèse du théorème de recouvrement de Borel, Rev. Histoire Math. 11 (2) (2005), 163-204.
  9. F A Medvedev, The Du Bois-Reymond theorem and ordinal transfinite numbers in the investigations of E Borel (Russian), Istor.-Mat. Issled. No. 35 (1994), 255-285.
  10. F A Medvedev, Two proofs of the finite covering theorem (Russian), in History and methodology of the natural sciences, No. XXIX (Moskov. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 1982), 86-90.
  11. P Montel, Notice nécrologique sur Emile Borel, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 242 (1956), 845-850.
  12. P Montel, Nécrologie: Emile Borel, Rev. Gén. Sci. Pures Appl. 63 (1956), 137-141.
  13. O Onicescu, Emile Borel (1871-1956), the creator of the theory of measure (Romanian), Gaz. Mat. Ser. A 77 (1972), 361-372.
  14. B Penkov, Emile Borel (1871-1956) (on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth) (Bulgarian), Fiz.-Mat. Spis. Bulgar. Akad. Nauk. 14 (47) (1971), 339-343.
  15. S Stoilow, Emile Borel and modern mathematical analysis (Romanian), Gaz. Mat. Fiz. Ser. A 8 (1956), 169-175.
  16. J von Plato, Chance against Constructibility. in From Dedekind to Gödel, Boston, MA, 1992 (Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, 1995), 263-281.

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