LEBESGUE, HENRI.

Lecons sur L'integration et la Recherce des Fontions primitives.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1904. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers a little soiled. Backstrip repaired with paper pasted on, reaching inner margin of frontwrapper. Internally clean. VIII,138 pp.

First edition of Lebesgue's lectures on integration, held 1902-03 at Cours Peccot at the Colege de France, summing up his work on the Lebesgue Integral, which is now considered definitive.
"Although Lebesgue was primarely concerned with his own theory of integration, he played a role in bringing about the development of the abstract theorie of measure andd integration that prdominate in contemporary mathematical research."(Thomas Hawkins in DSB).

Order-nr.: 38727