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PROF. EMILE BOREL, who has just delivered a course of three lectures on applications of statistics to economic and meteorological forecasting at the London School of Economics, is a man of many talents and of distinguished achievements in the fields of mathematics and politics. To mathematicians he is known as a master of the theory of probability and the theory of functions, on which he has written many books, while politicians acknowledge him as one of the prominent deputies of the French Chamber and an enlightened Minister of Marine. Prof. Borel's mathematical genius revealed itself very early. Born in 1871 at Saint-Affrique, a village in the Aveyron of which he is mayor, he studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, taking his degree of doctor of mathematics in 1894. A few years later, he won successively the four much coveted prizes offered by the Academy of Sciences (Grand Prix des Sciences Mathematiques, Prix Vailland, Prix Poncelet and Prix Petit d'Ormoy). He was not forty years of age when he entered the Paris Academy of Sciences, of which he will be installed as president in January next. An honorary doctor of Trinity College, Dublin, he has a large number of distinctions from various universities and scientific institutions. He is honorary director of the Ecole Normale Superieure, and professor of the calculus of probability and mathematical physics in the University of Paris.
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Prof. Emile Borel. Nature 132, 812 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132812b0
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