Why did the Germans arrest and release Emile Borel in 1941?

Laurent Mazliak (1, 2) , Glenn Shafer (3, 4)

1 LPMA - Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires
2 IMJ-PRG (UMR_7586) - Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche
3 Rutgers Business School
4 RHUL - Royal Holloway [University of London]

In the paper we present some recently discovered documents of the archives from the German Occupation in Paris dealing with Borel's arrest in 1941.

Mots clés: Biography; Borel; Academic life

Domaines: Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Laurent Mazliak, Glenn Shafer. Why did the Germans arrest and release Emile Borel in 1941?. 2008. ⟨hal-00337822v1⟩