Armand Borel (21 May 1923 – 11 August 2003) was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 1957 to 1993. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups. (Wikipedia).
Présentation de l'exposition "Emile Borel : un mathématicien au pluriel"
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My joint work with Armand Borel from 1952-1954 - Frederich Hirzebruch
75th Anniversary Celebration School of Mathematics Frederich Hirzebruch Bonn University March 12, 2005 More videos on http://video.ias.edu
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Emile Borel: Real number enthusiast or skeptic? | Sociology and Pure Mathematics | N J Wildberger
Emile Borel was a prominent French analyst and probabilist, and the founder of modern measure theory. He was also involved in the issue of "real numbers" and just what they actually are, and what it means to do arithmetic with them. This is a first introduction to his thinking, where we d
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The Most Wanted Prime Number - Numberphile
Featuring Neil Sloane. Visit https://gift.climeworks.com/numberphile to give the gift of CO₂ removal. Use code NUMBERPHILE10 for 10% off your purchase in December (sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Neil Sloane is the founder of The OEIS: https://oeis.org More vide
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De Gaulle - Force of Character
Portraits of Power - DeGaulle - Force of Character Narrated by Henry Fonda Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first president from
From playlist Portraits of Power - Those who shaped the Twentieth Century
Padma Srinivasan, Computing exceptions primes for Galois representations of abelian surfaces
VaNTAGe Seminar on Dec 8, 2020 License CC-BY-NC-SA
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Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel (1875--1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.
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5 - Grothendieck et la théorie de Galois
Orateur(s) : T. Szamuely Public : Tous Date : mardi 25 octobre Lieu : Institut Henri Poincaré
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Anne-Sandrine Paumier - Quel(s) lieu(x) pour quelle(s) mathématique(s) ?
Quel(s) lieu(x) pour quelle(s) mathématique(s) ? Penser et construire l’Institut de Hautes Études Scientifiques Conférence donnée devant L'Association des Amis de l'IHES à l'IHES le 4 mai 2017. L’IHES est créé officiellement le 27 juin 1958, dans le bureau de Joseph Pérès, doyen de la Fa
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The ancient origins of the Olympics - Armand D'Angour
How did the Olympics become the greatest show of sporting excellence on Earth? Dig into the history and evolution of the global event. -- Thousands of years in the making, the Olympics began as part of a religious festival honoring the Greek god Zeus in the rural Greek town of Olympia. B
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The real story behind Archimedes’ Eureka! - Armand D'Angour
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-real-story-behind-archimedes-eureka-armand-d-angour When you think of Archimedes’ Eureka moment, you probably imagine a man in a bathtub, right? As it turns out, there's much more to the story. Armand D'Angour tells the story of Archimedes'
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Neurologists Debunk 11 Headache And Migraine Myths | Debunked
Neurologists Deena Kuruvilla and Cynthia Armand debunk 11 myths about headaches and migraine attacks. They talk about the relationship between caffeine and headaches, the best hangover cure, and various treatment options for a headache and migraine. They also debunk the myth that a migrain
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(PP 1.8) Measure theory: CDFs and Borel Probability Measures
Correspondence between Borel probability measures on R and CDFs (cumulative distribution functions). A playlist of the Probability Primer series is available here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=17567A1A3F5DB5E4 You can skip the measure theory (Section 1) if you're not in
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France Since 1871 (HIST 276) Charles de Gaulle's importance in postwar French political life was matched by his importance in the nation's collective imagination. This authority was consciously contrived by de Gaulle, who wished to bear upon his figurative body the will of the French pe
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Semantic models for higher-order Bayesian inference - Sam Staton, University of Oxford
In this talk I will discuss probabilistic programming as a method of Bayesian modelling and inference, with a focus on fully featured probabilistic programming languages with higher order functions, soft constraints, and continuous distributions. These languages are pushing the limits of e
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