The Lebesgue-Stieltjes Integral
The Lebesgue-Stieltjes Integral
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DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-1174-7_4
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
M. Carter;B. Brunt
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作者:
M. Carter;B. Brunt
We now proceed to formulate the definition of the integral that we are going to study. It results from combining the ideas of two people. The French mathematician Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941), building on earlier work by Emile Borel (1871-1956) on the measure of a set, succeeded in defining an integral (the Lebesgue integral) that applied to a wider class of functions than did the Riemann integral, and for which the convergence theorems were much simpler. The Dutch mathematician Thomas Stieltjes (1856-1894) was responsible for the notion of integrating one function with respect to another function. His ideas were originally developed as an extension of the Riemann integral, known as the Riemann-Stieltjes integral. The subsequent combination of his ideas with the measure-theoretic approach of Lebesgue has resulted in a very powerful and flexible concept of integration.