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Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician and politician, originator of the Infinite monkey theorem.
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Quotes
[edit]- 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.
- Concevons qu’on ait dressé un million de singes à frapper au hasard sur les touches d’une machine à écrire et que, sous la surveillance de contremaîtres illettrés, ces singes dactylographes travaillent avec ardeur dix heures par jour avec un million de machines à écrire de types variés. Les contremaîtres illettrés rassembleraient les feuilles noircies et les relieraient en volumes. Et au bout d’un an, ces volumes se trouveraient renfermer la copie exacte des livres de toute nature et de toutes langues conservés dans les plus riches bibliothèques du monde. Telle est la probabilité pour qu’il se produise pendant un instant très court, dans un espace de quelque étendue, un écart notable de ce que la mécanique statistique considère comme la phénomène le plus probable.
- Imagine that a million monkeys have been trained to type at random on the keys of a typewriter and that, under the supervision of illiterate foremen, these typing monkeys work diligently ten hours a day with a million typewriters of various types. Illiterate foremen would collect the blackened sheets and bind them into volumes. And at the end of a year, these volumes would contain the exact copy of the books of all kinds and all languages preserved in the richest libraries in the world. Such is the probability that there will occur, during a very short instant, in a space of some extent, a notable deviation from what statistical mechanics considers to be the most probable phenomenon.
- "La mécanique statique et l'irréversibilité." J. Phys. Theor. Appl. 3.1 (1913): 189-196.
Quotes about Borel
[edit]- 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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