Human Accomplishment: Henri Lebesgue

a French mathematician known for his theory of integration — summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis

Born

June 28, 1875 Beauvais, Oise, France

Died

July 26, 1941 (aged 66) Paris, France

Nationality

French

Known for

Lebesgue integration Lebesgue measure

Fields

Mathematics

Alma mater

École Normale Supérieure University of Paris

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society Poncelet Prize for 1914

Institutions

University of Rennes University of Poitiers University of Paris Collège de France

adultbasic

France

Doctoral advisor

Émile Borel

Doctoral students

Paul Montel Zygmunt Janiszewski Georges de Rham

era

1800+