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Lebesgue

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[luh-beg] / ləˈbɛg /

noun

  1. Henri Léon 1875–1941, French mathematician.


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But many can still be quantified using the Lebesgue measure, a function that assigns length, area or volume to extremely complicated objects.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2021

A still more general definition has been given by Lebesgue.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

The scope of Fourier’s Series has been extended by Lebesgue, who introduced a conception of integration wider than that due to Riemann.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

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