Subject: [HM] Presque partout
From: Udai Venedem (venedem@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Sat Jun 03 2000 - 15:47:45 EDT
Dear HMrs,
in the second edition (1928) of his LEC,ONS SUR L'INTE/GRATION ET LA
RECHERCHE DES FONCTIONS PRIMITIVES, Lebesgue by a note on page 179 pretend
that the locution "presque partout" (to mean "except on a zero-measured
set") was introduced in the first edition of his book (1904), where I do not
find it. Could it be that Lebesgue is wrong, and that the (small)
controversy he has with Denjoy about this expression (God knows why, Denjoy
did not find it proper), was aroused somewhere else in the interval
1904-1928? Or did not I look carefully enough?
Udai Venedem
venedem@wanadoo.fr
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