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Henri Lebesgue

was born 149 years ago

28 June 1875

Lebesgue formulated the theory of measure in 1901 and the following year he gave the definition of the Lebesgue integral that generalises the notion of the Riemann integral.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lebesgue/