Introduction to Lebesgue Integration

by WWL Chen

 

This set of notes was mainly written in 1977 while the author was an undergraduate at Imperial College, University of London. Chapters 1 and 3 were first used in lectures given there in 1982 and 1983, while Chapter 2 was added in Sydney in 1996.

The material has been organized in such a way to create a single volume suitable for an introduction to some of the basic ideas in Lebesgue integration with the minimal use of measure theory.

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Chapter 1: THE REAL NUMBERS AND COUNTABILITY

 

Chapter 2: THE RIEMANN INTEGRAL

 

Chapter 3: POINT SETS

 

Chapter 4: THE LEBESGUE INTEGRAL

 

Chapter 5: MONOTONE CONVERGENCE THEOREM

 

Chapter 6: DOMINATED CONVERGENCE THEOREM

 

Chapter 7: LEBESGUE INTEGRALS ON UNBOUNDED INTERVALS

 

Chapter 8: MEASURABLE FUNCTIONS AND MEASURABLE SETS

 

Chapter 9: CONTINUITY AND DIFFERENTIABILITY OF LEBESGUE INTEGRALS

 

Chapter 10: DOUBLE LEBESGUE INTEGRALS