Caspar Wessel

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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Who was born first?

• Caspar Wessel and Johan Gottlieb Gahn were born the same year
• Caspar Wessel and George Atwood were born the same year
• Caspar Wessel and Alessandro Volta were born the same year
• Caspar Wessel and Johann Hieronymus Schröter were born the same year
• Caspar Wessel was born 1 year after John Jeffries

Timeline

1. John JeffriesFebruary 5, 1744 – September 16, 1819
2. Alessandro VoltaFebruary 18, 1745 – March 5, 1827
3. Caspar Wessel (this page)June 8, 1745 – March 25, 1818
4. George AtwoodOctober 1745 – July 11, 1807
5. Johan Gottlieb GahnAugust 19, 1745 – December 8, 1818
6. Johann Hieronymus SchröterAugust 30, 1745 – August 29, 1816

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