UCPH Department of Mathematical Sciences

The department is located in the E building of the Hans Christian Ørsted Institute, on Universitetsparken 5 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

From the founding of the University of Copenhagen in 1479, mathematics had been part of the Faculty of Philosophy.

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences was first created in 1934 next to the Niels Bohr Institute building, when Carlsberg Foundation donated money for a building in celebration of the 450th anniversary of the University of Copenhagen in 1929.

Harald Bohr, the brother of physicist Niels Bohr, is one famous alumnus of the department; his research in harmonic analysis and almost periodic functions in the 1930s laid the foundation for a huge drive in analysis.

Most notably, since the 1980s the department has been a globally recognized frontrunner in functional analysis, particularly the study of operator algebras and C*-algebras.