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Listed are persons whose achievements have been important also outside Denmark.1 Sciences
1.1 Pure and Applied Mathematics
- Harald Bohr
- A. K. Erlang, engineer, industrial and systems engineer
- Thomas Fincke, ( 1561- 1656), mathematician
- Jørgen Pedersen Gram
- Piet Hein, ( 1905- 1996)
- Georg Mohr, ( 1548- 1620), mathematician
- Niels Erik Nørlund
- Julius Petersen, ( 1839- 1910), mathematician
- Caspar WesselCaspar Wessel ( June 8, 1745 March 25, 1818) was a Norwegian- Danish mathematician. Wessel was born in Jonsrud, Vestby, Akershus, Norway. In 1763, having completed secondary school, he went to Denmark for further studies (Norway having at the time no univ, ( 1745Events May 11 War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 Beginning of the '45 Jaco- 18181818 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events February 12 Chile gains its independence from Spain March 11 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published March 22 Easter Sunday falls on its earliest possible date. The next time Easter will fall this early:), NorwegianThe Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country west of Sweden on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It has a very elongated form and has an extensive coastline along the North Atlantic Ocean, where Norway's famous fjords are found. In addition to Sweden, it borders R-Danish mathematicianA mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. Roles Mathematicians not only study, but also research, and this must be given prominent mention here, because a misconception that everything in mathematics is already known is
1.2 Computer Science
- Rasmus LerdorfRasmus Lerdorf (born November 22 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish- Canadian programmer and the original author of the PHP programming language. Since September 2002, he has been employed by Yahoo! Inc. External links . broken) An introductory, PHPFor the "PHP" Cold-war history project, see Parallel History Project. PHP (a recursive acronym for P HP: H ypertext P reprocessor") is a widely-used open-source programming language primarily for server-side applications and developing dynamic web content (born in GreenlandThis article is about Greenland, the island dependency of Denmark. For information about the town of Greenland, see Greenland, New Hampshire. Greenland ( Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat "The Land of the Greenlanders (Kalaallit)"; Danish: Gronland , an Arcti, lives in USA)
- Peter Naur
- Jakob Nielsen, ( 1957-), Usability (lives in USA)
- Bjarne Stroustrup, ( 1950- ), C++ (lives in USA)
- Anders Hejlsberg, Turbo Pascal, Delphi language, C# (lives in USA)
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