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@faassen @datarama
One of the best courses I ever took was a semester on measure theory and the Lebesgue integral. We studied it entirely through the history, in chronological order. This meant that we’d often prove a theorem one week, then find out the next week that the proof was flawed and there’s a counterexample: making the same mistakes actual mathematicians made.

It was •fantastic•. I still remember details decades later.

The prof wrote it up:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0025570X.2020.1790967?needAccess=true