Harald Bohr

Harald August Bohr

Born: 22 April 1887 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 22 Jan 1951 in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Harald Bohr was a brother of Niels Bohr and became a professor in the Polytechnic Institute in Copenhagen in 1915 and at the University of Copenhagen in 1930.

He worked on Dirichlet series, and applied analysis to the theory of numbers. Later he collaborated with Landau in studying the Riemann zeta function. In 1914 they proved the Bohr-Landau theorem on the zeta function. His interest in which functions could be represented by a Dirichlet series led him to devise a theory of almost periodic functions.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. S Bochner, Harald Bohr, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (1952),72-75. 
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