Félix Edouard Justin Émile Borel (1871 - 1956)

* 7 January 1871, † 3 February 1956

Félix Edouard Justin Émile Borel was born on 7 January 1871 in Saint Affrique, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France. Borel created the first effective theory of the measure of sets of points beginning of the modern theory of functions of a real variable. He was also a co-author of the Heine-Borel Theorem. Félix Edouard Justin Émile Borel died on 3 February 1956 in Paris, France.