Caspar Wessel
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 206 years ago |
Date of birth | June 8,1745 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Vestby Municipality |
Norway | |
Date of died | March 25,1818 |
Died | Copenhagen |
Denmark | |
Field | Mathematics |
Siblings | Johan Herman Wessel |
Ole Christopher Wessel | |
Gjertrud Marie Wessel | |
Awards | Order of the Dannebrog |
Education | Oslo Cathedral High School |
Copenhagen University | |
Nationality | Danish |
Norwegian | |
Books | On the analytical representation of direction |
Nephew | Jonas Wessel |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 815857 |
Caspar Wessel Life story
Caspar Wessel was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the complex plane and vectors.