Harald Bohr

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Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Denmark
Men's football
Silver	1908 London	Team Competition

Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and football player.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Mathematical career 3 Olympic Football medal 4 Teacher 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Biography

Harald Bohr was a 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.

[edit] Mathematical career

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

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. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Harald Bohr”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive 
• Harald Bohr at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Danish national team profile
• Some photos of Harald Bohr