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Journal article

Caspar Wessel on representing complex numbers (1799)

In Newsletter of European Mathematical Society — 1999, Issue 33, pp. 13-16

By Branner, Bodil1

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Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark1

In celebration of the bicentenary of the publication of Wessel's paper on the geometric interpretation of complex numbers it is decsribed how Wessel used complex numbers to represent directions in surveying, at least as early as 1787.

Language: English
Year: 1999
Pages: 13-16
Types: Journal article

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