Piers Bohl

Piers Bohl (October 23, 1865 – December 25, 1921) was a Latvian mathematician, who worked in differential equations, topology and quasi-periodic functions.

He was born in 1865 in Walk, Livonia, in the family of a poor Baltic German merchant. In 1884, after graduating from a German school in Viljandi, he entered the faculty of physics and mathematics at the University of Tartu. In 1893 Bohl was awarded his Master's degree. This was for an investigation of quasi-periodic functions. The notion of quasi-periodic functions was generalised still further by Harald Bohr when he introduced almost-periodic functions.

References

• Bohl biography at www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk
• http://www.mathematics.lv/lms_10_years_after.pdf

External links

• Piers Bohl at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.