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This entry contributed by Michel Barran
Danish mathematician, son of Christian Bohr, a distinguished physiologist and brother of the
physicist Niels Bohr. Harald Bohr was educated at the University of Copenhagen, where he
received his Ph.D. in 1910. He studied several month in Göttingen with Landau, and subsequently was appointed
professor at the College of Technology of Copenhagen (1915), then at the University of Copenhagen, where he headed the new
Institute of Mathematics (1930-1951).
Bohr's early research was mainly concerned with Dirichlet series.  Later, he concentrated his efforts
on a study of the Riemann zeta function with E. Landau. In 1914, Landau and Bohr formulated a theorem
concerning the distribution of zeros of the zeta function (now called the Bohr-Landau theorem). In three papers
published in 1924-26 in Acta Mathematica, Bohr founded the theory of almost periodic
function. With Mollerup, he also wrote an important textbook which had significant
influence on mathematics teaching in Denmark.
 Bohr (Aage), Bohr (Christian), Bohr (Niels)
Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews)
--. Archives of University of Copenhagen. http://www.math.ku.dk/arkivet/hbohr/hbpapers.htm.
Bohr, H. Fastperiodishe Functionen. Berlin, 1932. English translation, New York, 1947.
Bohr, H. Laerebog i matematisk analyse, vol. 1: Linaear algebra. Copenhagen, 1945.
Bohr, H. Laerebog i matematisk analyse, vol. 2: Funktioner af een reele variabel. Copenhagen, 1945.
Bohr, H. Laerebog i matematisk analyse, vol. 3: Funktioner af flere reele variable. Uendelige raekker. Copenhagen, 1947.
Bohr, H. Laerebog i matematisk analyse, vol. 4: Funktioner af en kompleks variabel. Specielle emner. Copenhagen, 1949.
Følner, E. and Jessen, B. (Eds.) Collected Mathematical Works of Harald Bohr, 3 vols. Copenhagen: Dansk Matematisk Forening, 1950-1952.
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