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| | Henri Lebesgue -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Henri Léon Lebesgue (June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941) was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician, most famous for his theory of (The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community) integration. |
 | | Lebesgue's integration theory was originally published in his dissertation, Intégral, longueur, aire ("Integral, length, area"), at the University of (A city in northeastern France in Lorraine) Nancy in 1902. |
 | | Lebesgue's technique for turning a (How much there is of something that you can quantify) measure into an integral generalises easily to many other situations, leading to the modern field of (Click link for more info and facts about measure theory) measure theory. |
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