MATHEMATICIAN

Henri Lebesgue

1875 - 1941

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Henri Léon Lebesgue (French: [ɑ̃ʁi leɔ̃ ləbɛɡ]; June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941) was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Lebesgue has received more than 338,786 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Henri Lebesgue is the 146th most popular mathematician (down from 126th in 2019), the 1,046th most popular biography from France (down from 938th in 2019) and the 29th most popular French Mathematician.

Henri Lebesgue is most famous for his contributions to the theory of measure and integration. He developed the concept of measure, which is a way of calculating the area of a set. He also developed the Lebesgue integral, which is a way of calculating the area under a curve.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Henri Lebesgue ranks 146 out of 1,004. Before him are Vincenzo Viviani, Harald Bohr, Andrew Wiles, Mary Jackson, Johannes Trithemius, and Émile Borel. After him are Zoia Ceaușescu, Andrey Markov, Edward Norton Lorenz, Wang Chong, Joseph Liouville, and Scipione del Ferro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Henri Lebesgue ranks 31. Before him are Zhang Zuolin, Antonio Machado, Edgar Wallace, Matthias Erzberger, D. W. Griffith, and Mihály Károlyi. After him are Albert Marquet, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Othenio Abel, Sisowath Monivong, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, and Cléo de Mérode. Among people deceased in 1941, Henri Lebesgue ranks 33. Before him are Kurt Koffka, Ludwig Quidde, Günther Prien, Alexej von Jawlensky, Sherwood Anderson, and Christian Rakovsky. After him are Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Pál Teleki, Louis Chevrolet, Sisowath Monivong, Günther Lütjens, and Mikhail Kirponos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Lebesgue ranks 1,046 out of 6,770. Before him are Ernest Chausson (1855), Suzanne Lenglen (1899), Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696), Émile Borel (1871), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), and Victor, Prince Napoléon (1862). After him are Danielle Darrieux (1917), Marie Duplessis (1824), Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), Jean Gerson (1363), Jean de La Bruyère (1645), and Judith of Bavaria (797).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Henri Lebesgue ranks 29. Before him are Girard Desargues (1591), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Étienne Bézout (1730), Jacques Hadamard (1865), and Émile Borel (1871). After him are Joseph Liouville (1809), Michel Rolle (1652), André Weil (1906), Pierre Bouguer (1698), René Thom (1923), and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749).

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