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September 2008
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Lebesgue integration

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Can you imagine objects that you can't measure? Not ones that don't exist, but real things that have no length or area or volume? It might sound weird, but they're out there. Andrew Davies gives us an introduction to Measure Theory.

Tags: fractal : Cantor dust : measure theory : Cantor set : Sierpinski's Carpet : Riemann integration : Lebesgue integration : measurability : Banach-Tarski paradox