Henri Lebesgue | |
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| Born | June 28, 1875 |
| Died | July 26, 1941 (aged 66) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure University of Paris |
| Known for | Lebesgue integration Lebesgue measure |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Poncelet Prize for 1914[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Rennes University of Poitiers University of Paris Collège de France |
| Doctoral advisor | Émile Borel |
| Doctoral students | Paul Montel Zygmunt Janiszewski Georges de Rham |
Henri Léon Lebesgue ForMemRS[1] (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. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Intégrale, longueur, aire ("Integral, length, area") at the University of Nancy during 1902.[3][4]
- ^ a b Burkill, J. C. (1944). "Henri Lebesgue. 1875-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (13): 483–490. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1944.0001. JSTOR 768841. S2CID 122854745.
- ^ "Prizes Awarded by the Paris Academy of Sciences for 1914". Nature. 94 (2358): 518–519. 7 January 1915. doi:10.1038/094518a0.
- ^ Henri Lebesgue at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Henri Lebesgue", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews