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Henri Lebesgue
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French mathematician (1875–1941)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1875-06-28 ) June 28, 1875, Beauvais , Oise , France
- Died
- July 26, 1941 (1941-07-26) (aged 66), Paris , France
- Alma mater
- École Normale Supérieure , University of Paris
- Known for
- Lebesgue integration , Lebesgue measure
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society , Poncelet Prize for 1914
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Rennes , University of Poitiers , University of Paris , Collège de France
- Thesis
- Intégrale, longueur, aire (1902)
- Doctoral advisor
- Émile Borel
- Doctoral students
- Paul Montel , Zygmunt Janiszewski , Georges de Rham
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Beauvais
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Lycée Saint-Louis
- Employer
- University of Rennes
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Lebesgue's density theorem
- Doctoral advisor
- Émile Borel
- Field of work
- measure theory
- Image
- Lebesgue 2.jpeg
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- student
- Arnaud Denjoy
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Henri-Léon Lebesgue
- date of birth
- 1875-06-28
- date of death
- 1941-07-26
- P8168
- Wild at Heart
- name in native language
- Henri-Léon Lebesgue
- writing language
- French
- Commons Creator page
- Henri-Léon Lebesgue
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Henri Léon Lebesgue (/ləˈbɛɡ/; 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.
Personal life
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