Caspar Wessel
(1745-1818)
Norwegian mathematician
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Caspar Wessel (June 8, 1745, Vestby – March 25, 1818, Copenhagen) 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. He was the younger brother of poet and playwright Johan Herman Wessel.
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8 June 1745 Vestby
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25 March 1818 (aged 72) Copenhagen
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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