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A classic and 5 stars for Dover!
I was looking for Saks' classical and beautiful treatment of integration for years but hesitated from buying it used (paperbacks usually look very ugly after 30 or 40 years). A great compliment has to go to Dover for reprinting it in their Phoenix series. Saks style of writing is clear and crisp in all respects. A special piece of sugar is the two articles of Banach in which he outlines a general point of view of integration. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!Stanisław Saks (December 30, 1897 - November 23, 1942) was a Polish mathematician and university tutor, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the Theory of Integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali-Hahn-Saks theorem. Stanisław Saks was born December 30, 1897 in Kalisz, Congress Poland, to an assimilated Polish-Jewish family. In 1915 he graduated from a local gymnasium and joined the newly-recreated Warsaw University. In 1922 he received a doctorate of his alma mater with a prestigious award Cum Maxima Laude. Soon afterwards he also passed his habilitation and received the Rockefeller scholarship, which allowed him to travel to the United States. ... Read more