Borel measure

English Etymology After Emile Borel Noun en analysis A measure whose domain is the Borel σ-algebra of a locally compact Hausdorff space. en Gerald Folland Gerald B. Folland Real Analysis: Modern Techniques and Their Applications 2nd New York John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999 §1.5 33 978-0-471-31716-6 803988029 We are now in a position to construct a definitive theory for measuring subsets of based on the idea that the measure of an interval is its length. We begin with a more general (but only slightly more complicated) construction that yields a large family of measures on whose domain is the Borel σ-algebra ; such measures are called Borel measures on . Translations Finnish: fi Borelin mitta, fi Borel-mitta German: de Borel-Maß n Polish: pl miara borelowska f en eponyms