Book ID: CBB000550714

Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (2001)

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Lützen, Jesper (Editor)


C.A. Reitzels Forlag


Publication Date: 2001
Edition Details: Proceedings of the Wessel Symposium at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, August 11--15, 1998. Invited papers
Physical Details: 293 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

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Reviewed By

Review Sørensen, Henrik Kragh (2005) Review of "Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 73). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Archibald, Tom (2001) Priority Claims and Mathematical Values: Disputes over Quaternions at the End of the Nineteenth Century. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 255). unapi

Chapter Lützen, Jesper (2001) Julius Petersen, Karl Weierstrass, Hermann Amandus Schwarz and Richard Dedekind on Hypercomplex Numbers. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 223). unapi

Chapter Freguglia, Paolo (2001) Bellavitis's Equipollences Calculus and his Theory of Complex Numbers. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 181). unapi

Chapter Bekken, Otto B. (2001) Viète's Generation of Triangles. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 121). unapi

Chapter Amelin, Olov (2001) Instrument Maker on the Run: A Case of Technology Transfer. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 65). unapi

Chapter Pedersen, Kurt Møller (2001) Thomas Bugge's Journal of a Voyage through Germany, Holland and England, 1777. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 29). unapi

Chapter Christensen, Dan C. (2001) English Instrument Makers Observed by Predatory Danes. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 47). unapi

Chapter Schlote, Karl-Heinz (2001) Hypercomplex Numbers in the Work of Caspar Wessel and Hermann Günther Grassmann: Are there any Similarities?. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 205). unapi

Chapter Rice, Adrian (2001) Inexplicable? The Status of Complex Numbers in Britain, 1750--1850. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 147). unapi

Chapter Schubring, Gert (2001) Argand and the Early Work on Graphical Representation: New Sources and Interpretations. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 125). unapi

Chapter Kristensen, L. Kahl (2001) Wessel as a Cartographer. In: Around Caspar Wessel and The Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (p. 81). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Nahin, Paul J.
Sznajder, Roman
Klein, Christian Felix
de Saint-Gervais, Henri Paul
Wolfe, John J.
Thiele, Rüdiger
Concepts
Complex numbers
Mathematics
Geometry
Number theory; number concept
Mathematical analysis
Mathematics and its relationship to science
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
Ancient
Places
Poland
Germany
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