Caspar Wessel
Mathematician, Academic
1745 – 1818
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Who was Caspar Wessel?
Caspar Wessel was a Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the complex plane. He was the younger brother of poet and playwright Johan Herman Wessel.
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- Born
- Jun 8, 1745
Vestby - Siblings
- Profession
- Education
- University of Copenhagen
- Died
- Mar 25, 1818
Copenhagen
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on July 23, 2013
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