Harald August Bohr

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Harald August Bohr

1887-1951

Danish mathematician and the brother of famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Harald Bohr was a professor in Copenhagen, Denmark; his early research was on the theory of numbers, especially the Dirichlet series. Later, he collaborated with German mathematician Edmund Landau. Together they devised a theory called the Bohr-Landau theorem (1914), about the distribution of zeros.

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