Riemann–Stieltjes integral
Integral de Riemann-Stieltjes
- Date
- 1894 · confidence high
- Place
- Toulouse, Occitania, France
- Credited to
- Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Dutch mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes published the definition of the integral bearing his name alongside Bernhard Riemann's in 1894, in Toulouse, a generalization that integrates one function with respect to another and a forerunner of the Lebesgue integral.
What it led to
- Lebesgue–Stieltjes integral
- Probability theory and distribution functions
- Unification of discrete and continuous calculus in statistics