Section outline

    • Sigma algebras: definition and examples. Abstract measures: definition and examples.

    • Counting measure. Properties of abstract measures: monotonicity, finite additivity and measure of the union/difference, continuity from below and from above, examples.

      lebesgue measure: introduction, intervals, definition of outer measure.

    • Exercises on abstract measures. Countable sub-additivity. Lebesgue outer measure, main properties.

    • Lebesgue class, basic facts and properties. Measurable functions: definition and examples (indicator and simple functions). 

    • Properties of measurable functions.

    • Exercises on Lebesgue measure. 
      definition of integral.

    • Definition of integral. Chebichev inequality.