Shenitzer, A.; Steprāns, Juris The evolution of integration. (English) Zbl 0798.01001 Am. Math. Mon. 101, No. 1, 66-72 (1994). Articles giving a brief view of the history and significance of a topic (here integration) seem a good idea; however there is some difficulty in avoiding an over concise explanation which will mean little to those who do not have a good deal of knowledge about the subject. In this article of little more than six pages the 17th century contributions are dismissed in less than half a page and a further half page is devoted to the period between Cauchy and Lebesgue. The most substantial part consists of a rather technical explanation why there is no ‘perfect’ integral – this requires a fair amount of background knowledge of set theory and mathematical logic. Reviewer: G.C.Smith (Grimsby) Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 2 Documents MSC: 01A05 General histories, source books 28-03 History of measure and integration Keywords:integration PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{A. Shenitzer} and \textit{J. Steprāns}, Am. Math. Mon. 101, No. 1, 66--72 (1994; Zbl 0798.01001) Full Text: DOI