Discovering the discovered integral: William Henry Young und das Lebesgue-Integral (Q1267396)

Lebesgue had published his famous thesis in 1902 in the Annali di matematicà, after a Comptes rendus note of 1901. In January 1904 W. H. Young presented a paper to the London Mathematical Society. He was told that the paper could not be printed in this form since his results were identical with those of a certain Lebesgue. Young, at the time in Cambridge, wrote to his wife Grace Chisholm in Göttingen. She replied in February 1904: ``I've today got Lesergues (or whatever his name is) out of the library and shall occupy myself with him tomorrow.'' And somewhat later, ``I will do the integrals next.'' The previously unpublished correspondence of the Youngs, now preserved at the University of Liverpool, confirms the independence of Young from Lebesgue.