Bohr, Harald (1887-1951) | Niels Bohr Archive

Name: Bohr, Harald (1887-1951)

Fuller Form: Bohr, Harald August

Historical Note: Studied at Copenhagen Univ. Magister 1909. Studied in Göttingen under Edmund Landau and in Oxford and Cambridge. Dr. phil. Copenhagen 1910, thesis on Dirichlet series. Prof. Polytechnical School, Copenhagen, 1915. Prof. Copenhagen U. and director of new Mathematical Institute on Blegdamsvej, 1930. Harald Bohr's outstanding contribution to mathematics was his conception of almost periodic functions, which he defined and studied in three great papers published in Acta mathematica in 1924-1926, and which formed the brilliant conclusion of his prolonged investigation of the Dirichlet series and the functions represented by such series.

Note Author: Pors, Felicity