Niels Erik Nørlund, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Niels Erik Nørlund

Mathematician, astronomer

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1885

Place of Birth: Slagelse, Region Zealand, Denmark

Date of Death: 04-Jul-1981

Profession: astronomer, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Sweden, Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Niels Erik Nørlund (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. The Norlund Alps and Norlund Land in Greenland were named after him.