Collected Works of Harald Bohr

The Collected Works contain almost all of Bohr's scientific papers, while his textbooks and some elementary and pedagogical publications in Danish have been left out. Most of the latter were reprinted in Matematiske arbejder med pædagogisk sigte [Mathematical works with a pedagogical aim] at the centenary of his birth.

Archival material from the publication of the Collected Works is conserved in box 11-15, Harald Bohr Papers, the Archive, Institute for Mathematical Science, University of Copenhagen. It consists of the original manuscript, correspondence about financial and editorial matters, etc.

Bohr, Harald:
Collected Mathematical Works in three Volumes. Edited by Erling Følner and Børge Jessen. Dansk Matematisk Forening, København 1952.

Bohr, Harald:
Matematiske arbejder med pædagogisk sigte [Mathematical works with a pedagogical aim]. Dansk Matematisk Forening, København 1987.

In the Collected Works Bohr's scientific works is divided into subjects and the papers belonging to each subject are then arranged chronological. The subjects are:

A Dirichlet series
B The Riemann zeta function
C Almost periodic functions
D Linear congruences and Diophantine approximations
E Function theory
F Addition of convex curves
G Other
H Encyclopædia article
S Translations into English


The "subject" S consists of translations into English of the most important papers in Danish, and a short English summary of the rest of the Danish articles which are included in the Collected Works.

Furthermore an English translation of Bohr's autobiographical talk "Et Tilbageblik" [Looking back] is included in the beginning of volume I and Jessen's obituary of Bohr in Acta Mathematica is included in the end of volume III.

Last updated: 2000.06.01, 1999.05.14