Henri Lebesgue
French mathematician
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Henri Léon Lebesgue ForMemRS 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. Wikipedia
Born: June 28, 1875, Beauvais, France
Died: July 26, 1941 (age 66 years), Paris, France
Academic advisor: Émile Borel
Alma mater: École Normale Supérieure; University of Paris
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society; Poncelet Prize for 1914
Doctoral students: Paul Montel; Zygmunt Janiszewski; Georges de Rham