1763 - Borel,E.

Borel,E. Memoire sur les series divergentes. Paris, Gauthiers-Villars 1899. In: Annales Scientifiques de l'ecole Normale Superieure, publiees sous les auspices du ministre de l'Instruction publique. Troisieme Serie, tome 16, Annee 1899. 137-138, 9-136 p. Pbd. d. Zt. First edition, with handwritten dedication from the author "Monsieur G.Mittag Leffler Hommage respectueux Emile Borel". Signed by Borel." - Emile Borel (1871-1956) was like Jacques Hadamard the most important French Mathematician of the first decade of the 20th century. He became Professor at the Sorbonne University in 1909. In addition to his prolific mathematical work, he was active in politics, scientific popularization and journalism, he was a member of the chamber of deputies (1924-1936) as a radical socialist, and served as Minister for the Navy (1925-1940). His mathematical work was first in complex analysis, where he showed the power of ideas in Cantorian set theory in the classical theory and probability, and argued for a traditional view of the subject in opposition to the new axiomatic approach of Kolmogorov. He also wrote on the theory of games, independently of the much better known work of von Neumann on this subject. Early publication by Emile Borel. - 23.