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The Lebesgue integralNote that the areas, or slices, to be summed are horizontal rather than vertical. One such slice, in yellow, indicates the (disjoint) set, at the base of the blue bars, that corresponds to that slice's range of values.
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The Lebesgue integralNote that the areas, or slices, to be summed are horizontal rather than vertical. One such slice, in yellow, indicates the (disjoint) set, at the base of the blue bars, that corresponds to that slice's range of values.
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Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician