Henri Leon Lebesgue was a French mathematician who lived from 1875 to 1941 and revolutionized the theory of integration. His central contribution was Lebesgue integration, a generalization of the classical concept of summing areas under a curve, presented in his 1902 doctoral dissertation Integral, Length, Area, regarded as one of the finest ever written by a mathematician. His development of measure theory and measurable functions established concepts foundational to modern mathematical analysis, with later applications in statistical mechanics.
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Henri Léon Lebesgue (; French: [ɑ̃ʁi leɔ̃ ləbɛɡ]; June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941) was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis.
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Henri Lebesgue was born on 28 June 1875 in Beauvais, Oise.
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Henri Lebesgue was born on 28 June 1875 in Beauvais, Oise.
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Henri Lebesgue was born on 28 June 1875 in Beauvais, Oise.
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Henri Lebesgue died on 26 July 1941 in Paris.
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Henri Lebesgue died on 26 July 1941 in Paris.
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Henri Lebesgue died on 26 July 1941 in Paris.
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was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration
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was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration
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His theory was published originally in his dissertation Intégrale, longueur, aire ("Integral, length, area") at the University of Nancy during 1902.
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Henri Léon Lebesgue (; ; June 28, 1875, July 26, 1941) was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration-summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis.
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University of Rennes University of Poitiers University of Paris Collège de France
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