By Thomas Hawkins
During this publication, Hawkins elegantly areas Lebesgue's early paintings on integration thought inside of in right historic context by means of concerning it to the advancements in the course of the 19th century that inspired it and gave it value and in addition to the contributions made during this box through Lebesgue's contemporaries. Hawkins used to be provided the 1997 MAA Chauvenet Prize and the 2001 AMS Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize for impressive exposition and unprecedented scholarship within the historical past of arithmetic.
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Dirichlet quickly developed a personal interest in the young Riemann, who in turn considered Dirichlet the greatest living mathematician next to Gauss. " The starting point of the "Grundlagen" is the substantially different definitions of the term "function" proposed by Rielnann when the variable is real or complex. For a correspondence U' =J(z) between complex variables, it was required thatj'(z) exist. But for rea] variables, Riemann's definition reflects the influence of Dirichl~t, a function being defined as any correspondence.
Because he slurred over the difficulties that do exist when D is nowhere dense, Lipschitz was primarily concerned with removing Dirichlet's monotonicity condition. lIe succeeded in proving Dirichlet's result with piecewise monotonicity replaced by what is now justifiably called a Lipschitz condition. It is easily seen that the procedure of extending the integral proposed by Lipschitz can be applied to the case in which D(2) = (D')' is finite and, in general by induction, to the case in which DCn) = (DCn-I»' is finite.
He was able to show that the answer is Yes when the convergence in (2) is uniform in general with respect to the set P, ,vhich is thus taken to be finite. Using this hypothesis, he first sho,ved that an and bn converge to zero as n increaseSj this result then insures the existence of Riemann's function 00 F(x) = 1 AoX + L 2 - An (x)/n 2 • Heine's idea was to use F and its prop- n==1 erties, as demonstrated by Riemann, to show that an and bn are actually zero. 24 LEBESGUE'S THEORY OF INTEGRATION Cantor was induced by Heine's research to study the uniqueness problem, and he set himself the task of removing the hypothesis of uniform convergence in general.