Caspar Wessel
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 205 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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| 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.
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