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The evolution of integration. (English) Zbl 0798.01001

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.

MSC:

01A05 General histories, source books
28-03 History of measure and integration

Keywords:

integration
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