Niels Erik Nørlund

Niels Erik Nørlund

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.

Selected works

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. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1983.0017. JSTOR 769810.
  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. 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.
  6. 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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