Émile Borel
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Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was a French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.
Émile Borel (1932)
Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1918
Infinite monkey theorem
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The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys independently and at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the
Émile Borel
…Borel set is named in his honor. One of his books on probability introduced the amusing thought experiment that entered popular culture under the name infinite monkey theorem or the like. He also published a series of papers (1921–1927) that first defined games of strategy. John von Neumann objected to this assignment of…
A chimpanzee probably not writing Hamlet
Thomas Huxley is sometimes misattributed with proposing a variant of the theory in his debates with Samuel Wilberforce.