The problem of the definition area of a skew ruled surface: Peano and Lebesgue

DOI10.1007/S00407-009-0051-4MaRDI QIDQ1039934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sébastien Gandon, Yvette Perrin

Publication date 23 November 2009

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-009-0051-4

zbMATH Keywords

19th century mathematicsarea of a surfacehistory of analysisintegration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of real functions (26-03) Integration of real functions of several variables: length, area, volume (26B15) History of differential geometry (53-03)

Review text

The definition of the area of a surface, given by \textit{P. Serret} [Cours de calcul différentielle et intégral. Gauthier-Villars: Paris (1879)] was flawed. This had been independently recognized around 1890 by Hermann Amandus Schwarz and Giuseppe Peano. The authors discuss the way which led to an acceptable definition of the aera of a surface in the work of Peano and in Lebesgue's \textsl{Thèse} of 1902. Main emphasis they also lay upon the geometric aspects of all the different approaches toward a suitable definition of the area of surfaces, particularly of non-developable ones.

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