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Niels Erik Nørlund
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| Intro | Mathematician, astronomer | ||
| Was | Mathematician Astronomer Educator | ||
| From | Denmark | ||
| Type | Academia Mathematics Science | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 26 October 1885, Slagelse | ||
| Death | 4 July 1981, Copenhagen (aged 95 years) | ||
| Star sign | Scorpio | ||
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| Peoplepill ID | niels-erik-norlund |
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Biography
Niels Erik Nørlund ForMemRS (26 October 1885, in Slagelse – 4 July 1981, in Copenhagen) was a Danish mathematician.
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.
Selected works
- Vorlesungen über Differenzenrechnung. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 1924.
- with René Lagrange as editor: Leçons sur les équations linéaires aux différences finies. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1929.
- Vermessungsarbeiten in Grönland, Island und Dänemark. Darmstadt. 1939.
- "The logarithmic solutions of the hypergeometric equation". K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Mat. Fys. Skr. 5: 1–58. 1963.
- 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.
- 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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