Niels Erik Nørlund

Niels Erik Nørlund
Born26 October 1885
Slagelse, Denmark
Died4 July 1981
Copenhagen, Denmark
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Niels Erik Nørlund ForMemRS[1] (26 October 1885, in Slagelse – 4 July 1981, in Copenhagen) was a Danish mathematician.[2][3][4]

His book Vorlesungen über Differenzenrechnung (1924, reprinted 1954) was the first book on complex function solutions of difference equations. His doctoral students include Georg Rasch.

The Norlund Alps and Norlund Land in Greenland were named after him.[5]

He was also the brother of Margrethe Nørlund Bohr and brother-in-law of Nobel Prize winning physicist Niels Bohr.

Selected works

  • Vorlesungen über Differenzenrechnung. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 1924.[6]
  • with René Lagrange as editor: Leçons sur les équations linéaires aux différences finies. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1929.[7]
  • Vermessungsarbeiten in Grönland, Island und Dänemark. Darmstadt. 1939.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • "The logarithmic solutions of the hypergeometric equation". K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Mat. Fys. SKR. 5: 1–58. 1963.

See also

References

  1. ^ Bang, Thøger (1983). "Niels Erik Norlund. 26 October 1885-4 July 1981". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 29: 481–493. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1983.0017. JSTOR 769810. S2CID 73395843.
  2. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Niels Erik Nørlund", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  3. ^ Niels Erik Nørlund at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Bang, Thøger G. (1988). "Niels Erik Nørlund in memoriam". Acta Mathematica. 161: 11–22. doi:10.1007/BF02392293.
  5. ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  6. ^ Carmichael, R. D. (1925). "Nörlund on Calculus of Differences". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (8): 445–449. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1925-04088-4.
  7. ^ Carmichael, R. D. (1930). "Nörlund on Finite Differences". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1): 25–26. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1930-04861-2.

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