Historical Note
The concept of total variation for functions of one real variable was first introduced by Camille Jordan in the paper (Jordan 1881). He used the new concept in order to prove a convergence theorem for Fourier series of discontinuous periodic functions whose variation is bounded. The extension of the concept to functions of more than one variable however is not simple for various reasons.
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