Carl Størmer

Frederik Carl Mülertz Størmer ( born September 3, 1874 in Skien, Norway, † August 13 1957 in Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician and geophysicist.

Størmer was from 1903 to 1946 professor of pure mathematics at the University of Christiana (now Oslo University ), he was the first president of the Norwegian Mathematical Society founded in 1918.

Størmer developed a mathematical theory of auroral phenomena. According to him, Loup Verlet and the violation Störmer method for the numerical integration of Newton 's equations of motion is designated by interacting particles.

In 1936 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo (Programme for the Quantitative Discussion of Electron Orbits in the Field of a Magnetic Dipole, with Application to Cosmic Rays and Kindred Phenomena ) and 1924 on the Toronto (Modern Norwegian Researches on the Aurora Borealis ).

Works

• The Polar Aurora ( 1955)