Harald Bohr
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Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician, and younger brother of the physicist Niels Bohr.
Many friends remarked that the two men were unusually close, even for brothers. Early in the lives of the brothers, Harald was thought to be more likely to be successful.
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[edit] Mathematical career
Harald Bohr worked in mathematical analysis, founding the field of almost periodic functions, and worked with the Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy.
[edit] Olympic Football medal
Bohr was also an excellent football player; he won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics with the Danish national football team.
[edit] Teacher
Harald Bohr was known as an extremely capable academic teacher and the annual award for outstanding teaching at the University of Copenhagen is called the Harald, in recollection of Harald Bohr.
[edit] See also
- Bohr-Mollerup theorem
- Bohr compactification
- Bohr-Favard inequality
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Harald Bohr". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Danish national team profile
- Some photos of Harald Bohr
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