• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.145-160
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• 2009

In the end of 20th century, the concept of p-adic invariant q-integral was introduced by Taekyun Kim. The p-adic invariant q-integral is the extension of Jackson's q-integral on complex space. It is also considered as the answer of the question whether the ultra non-archimedian integral exists or not. In this paper, we investigate the background of historical mathematics for the p-adic invariant q-integral on $Z_p$ and the trend of the research in this field at present.