Harald Bohr
Harald Bohr · Science & Medicine
Founded the theory of almost periodic functions
1887, Copenhagen, Denmark — 1951, Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark
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Bohr was a Danish mathematician who founded the theory of almost periodic functions and, as an Olympic silver-medal footballer, was also a public figure; he was the younger brother of physicist Niels Bohr. His mother, Ellen Adler, came from a prominent Danish Jewish family, giving him Jewish ancestry on his mother's side.
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Founded the theory of almost periodic functions
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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