1902 in Science - Mathematics

Mathematics

  • June 16 - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the problem in naive set theory that will become known as Russell's paradox.
  • Gyula Farkas publishes the first proof of Farkas' lemma.
  • Henri Lebesgue introduces the theory of Lebesgue integration.

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