A quotation by Edward Van Vleck

This new integral of Lebesgue is proving itself a wonderful tool. I might compare it with a modern Krupp gun, so easily does it penetrate barriers which were impregnable.
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 23, 1916.

JOC/EFR February 2006

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