Lebesgue's Development of the Theories of Measure and Integration
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Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) revived the troubled field of integration. His generalization of integration, and the compl...
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Henri Léon Lebesgue
1875-1941
French Mathematician
Like many another mathematical innovator, Henri Lebesgue was not immediately recognized for his principal achievement, in his case a new approac...
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In the first decade of the 20th century, Henri Lebesgue developed a new approach to integral calculus in order to overcome the restrictions of previous theories. At that time, integration was used to ...
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Lebesgue was born in Beauvais, France, and received his undergraduate college training in mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. While teaching at the Lycée Central...
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Lebesgue's Development of the Theories of Measure and Integration
Henri Lebesgue
Henri Léon Lebesgue