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Harald Bohr

was born 137 years ago

22 April 1887

Harald Bohr worked on Dirichlet series, and applied analysis to the theory of numbers. He is (as far as we know) the only mathematician to win an Olympic medal (a silver for representing Denmark at soccer in 1908).

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bohr_Harald/