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René-Louis Baire

René-Louis Baire
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René-Louis Baire was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Sur les fonctions de variables réelles in 1899.

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Who was born first?

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  1. August KroghNovember 15, 1874 – September 13, 1949
  2. Chaim WeizmannNovember 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952
  3. Frank Elmore RossApril 2, 1874 – September 21, 1960
  4. Kiyotsugu HirayamaOctober 13, 1874 – April 8, 1943
  5. René-Louis Baire (this page)January 21, 1874 – July 5, 1932
  6. Vagn Walfrid EkmanMay 3, 1874 – March 9, 1954

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