Harald Bohr collection of reprints
Bohr's large collection of reprints was sold by his wife Ulla
Bohr to the Library at the Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, New York in 1952. It is still (1996) kept there
bounded in 270 volumes (volume 141 was missing). The collection
may be said to consist of three series: a series of medium sized
volumes (volume 1-171), a series of small sized volumes (volume
172-186) and a series of large sized volumes (volume 187-270).
The reprints in each series are ordered alphabetical which means
that reprints from one author may be in all three series. On the
back of each volume is printed Harald Bohr Collection, the
volume number and the alphabetical interval covered by the volume
(for example "N - Nielsen"). Some of the volumes, estimated 10%,
contains a typewritten table of content which lists author and
title of the reprints, but no catalog has been made of the complete
content. Often the page numbers of the reprints start from page 1 and are not
the page numbers of the actual published articles.
Most of the content is reprints of articles published in
mathematical journals. A significant part of the reprints are
from Acta mathematica (in the third series),
Mathematische Annalen and Mathematische Zeitschrift
(in the first series). Harald Bohr was editor of the two former
of these journals for a period.
Surprisingly a large collection of reprints are in Italian, and
some in Hungarian, Polish and Russian. There are many reprints
from Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Japanese
mathematicians.
While most of the reprints of articles are from well known
mathematical journals, which is to be found on most mathematical
libraries, there is also a collection of doctoral dissertations
and some booklets which in some cases are more rare.
Most of the doctoral dissertations are in German, but there are
also some in French, Swedish and Danish.
Last updated: 2000.06.11