Etymology

Lebesgue integral

Today it means: An integral which has more general application than that of the Riemann integral, because it allows the region of integration to be partitioned into not just intervals but any measurable sets for which the function to be integrated has a sufficiently narrow range. Full definition →

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Named after French mathematician Henri Lebesgue.

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