Daniel W. Stroock is Emeritus professor of mathematics at MIT. He is a respected mathematician in the areas of analysis, probability theory and stochastic processes. Prof. Stroock has had an active career in both the research and education. From 2002 until 2006, he was the first holder of the second Simons Professorship of Mathematics. In addition, he has held several administrative posts, some within the university and others outside. In 1996, the AMS awarded him together with his former colleague jointly S.R.S. Varadhan the Leroy P. Steele Prize for seminal contributions to research in stochastic processes. Finally, he is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Preface.- Notation.- 1. The Classical Theory.-2. Measures. -3. Lebesgue Integration.-4. Products of Measures.-5. Changes of Variable.-6. Basic Inequalities and Lebesgue Spaces.-7. Hilbert Space and Elements of Fourier Analysis.-8. Radon-Nikodym, Hahn, Daniell Integration, and Carathéodory- Index.