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Famous Mathematicians. Joseph Louis 17361813 Wilson, John 1741-1793 wessel, caspar 1745-1818 Laplace,Pierre Simon de 1749-1827 Legendre, Adrien Marie 1752-1833 Nieuwland, http://home.egge.net/~savory/maths6.htm
Extractions: If you ask people these days to name a famous mathematician, surveys show the most popular answer to be Albert Einstein . Einstein himself used to like to quote Sir Isaac Newton's famous humble line "If I have seen further than other men, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." So I asked myself, who were these giants, i.e. famous pre-Einstein mathematicians. Here's the list of the top 100 or so, sorted chronologically. How many do you know? That means you can state what they were famous for, off the cuff, no googling! If you score below 30 you need to do some revision :-) Ahmes c. 1650 B C Pythagoras c.540 BC Hippocrates c.440 BC (that's Hippocrates of Chios, NOT the physician who lived around the same time). Plato c.430-c.349 BC Hippias c.425 BC Theaetetus c.417-369 BC Archytas c.400 B C Xenocrates 396-314 BC Theodorus c.390 BC Aristotle 384-322 BC Menaechmus c.350 BC Euclid c.300 BC Archimedes c.287-212 BC Nicomedes c.240 BC Eratosthenes Gauss , Karl Friedrich 1777-1855 Brianchon, Charles c.1783-1864 Binet, Jacques-Philippe-Marie 1786-1856 Möbius, August Ferdinand 1790-1868 Babbage, Charles 1792-1871 Laine, Gabriel 1795-1870 Steiner, Jakob 1796-1863 de Morgan, Augustus 1806-1871 Liouville, Joseph 1809-1882 Shanks, William 1812-1882 Catalan, Eugene Charles 1814-1894 Hermite, Charles 1822-1901 Riemann, Bemard 1826-1866 Venn, John 1834-1923 Lucas, Edouard 1842-1891 Cantor, George 1845-1918 Lindemann, Ferdinand 1852-1939 Hilbert, David 1862-1943 Lehmer, D. N. 1867-1938 Hardy, G. H. 1877-1947 Ramanujan, Srinivasa 1887-1920
Caspar Wessel - Johan Herman Wessel - Kalliope caspar wessel er digterens bror og han huskes i matematikken som den første derafbildede de komplekse tal i en plan (opdaget i 1797 og trykt i 1799). http://www.kalliope.org/digt.pl?longdid=wesselsmaaverse9
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Genealogy Data wessel, Casper Birth 16 OCT 1833 Germany Death 23 SEP 1895 Detroit, MichiganGender Male Engelhard, caspar Birth 19 NOV 1871 Detroit, Michigan http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/8270/dat61.htm
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Extractions: Related Links Caspar Wessel June 8 March 25 ) was a Norwegian Danish mathematician Wessel was born in Jonsrud, Vestby Akershus , Norway. In , having completed secondary school, he went to Denmark for further studies (Norway having at the time no university). he acquired the degree of candidatus juris. From 1794, however, he was employed as a surveyor (from 1798 as Royal inspector of Surveying). It was the mathematical aspect of surveying that led him to exploring the geometrical significance of complex numbers . His fundamental paper, Om directionens analytiske betegning, was published in 1799 by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters . Since it was in Danish, it passed almost unnoticed, and the same results were later independently found by Argand and Gauss Wessel's priority to the idea of a complex number as a point in the complex plane is today universally recognised. His paper was re-issued in French translation in 1899, and in English in 1999 as On the analytic representation of direction (ed. J. Lützen
Untitled Document It was only in 1787 that a Norwegian surveyor named caspar wessel came up withthe idea of a 90degree rotation for i, and the resulting diagram above. http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2003-10-17/features/body.html
Extractions: Printer-friendly version 17 October 2003 By the Numbers, More Imagining by Peter Torrione L ast time ( "By the Numbers, Imagine That!" Also recall that since -1 was a rotation of 180 degrees about zero, "i" had to be a rotation of 90 degrees about zero. This comes from i x i being two rotations of 90 degrees resulting in a 180-degree rotation or -1. Are we finished? No! What happens when we add an "imaginary" number to a "real" number? Where is, for instance, 1 + i? It is clearly not on either the real or imaginary axis. Closure says it's a number, so we must find it. Notice that the lines we've created for the "real" and "imaginary" axes define or produce a flat plane. The plane is the plane of the sheet of paper. Euclid said it: Two intersecting lines define a plane. The entire plane could contain numbers. Before only the axes contained our numbers (real or imaginary), now the plane contains our new numbers which have both real
The Danish Royal Academy: Recent Publications caspar wessel. On the Analytical Representation of Direction. An Attempt AppliedChiefly to Around caspar wessel and the Geometric Representation. http://www.royalacademy.dk/pubs_e.htm
Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Author(s), wessel, caspar. Editor(s), Branner, Bodil; Lützen, Jesper. Title,On the Analytical Representation of Direction http://www.royalacademy.dk/SearchDatabase.asp?page=73
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DNV Ocean *3# - Tools Cabinet. The Norwegian surveyor caspar wessel (17451818) was the first to give a geometricalrepresentation of complex numbers in 1797, (200 years in 1997). http://research.dnv.com/ocean/cc/Tools.htm
Extractions: A Course in Ocean Engineering Talk Phone ~ Tools Cabinet ~ (Most functions are under reconstruction) The course offers a number of tools which intend to facilitate the course itself as well as technical work later on. Some features are well established while others are on the research stage. Internal Calling Ocean 's internal calling system. Wessel Counter Calculator for complex functions. Slide Rule Calculator for advanced form input. Field Service Wireless pocket-Ocean. Talking Textbook Complex Potential " on the Stereo. Mobile Computing Wave height pocket predictor. Audible Editor Telephone editor AUDIT Mobile Worker Remote computer with AUDIT input. Course Forward Status and future of the field service. The Tools Cabinet The Wessel Counter is a calculator particulary prepared for calculation with complex numbers and functions. The Norwegian surveyor Caspar Wessel (1745-1818) was the first to give a geometrical representation of complex numbers in 1797, (200 years in 1997). This was done prior to both Gauss and Argand.
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1798: Information From Answers.com Norwegian surveyor caspar wessel b. Vestby, Norway, June 8, 1745, d. Copenhagen,Denmark, March 25, 1818 publishes in the Transactions of the Danish http://www.answers.com/topic/1798
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Extractions: Home Software Hardware ... Contact FoCuS Ås is the Forum for Computational Science at Ås . It provides researchers at and around NLH with a forum to exchange their experiences, and benefit from each others strengths. FoCuS will thus spur the development of computational sciences across disciplines at NLH. FoCuS is open to all researches at NLH and associated institutes. Please send a mail to focus-info@nlh.no to be kept up to date about FoCuS' activities, or return to this website regularly! Caspar will enter regular service after Easter 2004. If you would like to use Caspar, please fill in an Account Application and send it to Hans Ekkehard Plesser IMT Thank's to a generous internal grant, NLH now has its own supercomputer, Caspar. The machine is an HP AlphaServer GS1280 with 8 processors (EV7), 32GB of RAM and some 500GB net disk capacity. It provides computer power in the range between desktop workstations and the major national supercomputing centers ( NOTUR Caspar is named for Norway's first mathematician, Caspar Wessel, who was born at Vestby, right south of Ås in 1745. He was the first to propose the geometric representation of complex numbers. Biographies are available in
Nyhet, Fysisk Institutt, Universitetet I Oslo Fysisk institutt Nyhet. Invitasjon til caspar wessel seminar. 26.11. kl 1000,.caspar wessel (1745-1818) var Norge/Danmarks første betydelige matematiker http://www.fys.uio.no/nyheter/ingen/3f9e6d165d6e.html
Extractions: Caspar Wessel (1745-1818) var Norge/Danmarks første betydelige matematiker. Som vanlige tall kan beskrives som steder på en tall-linje, fant Caspar Wessel at komplekse tall kan beskrives som punkter i et plan. Dette plan blir kalt det komplekse plan eller Argand-planet etter den sveitsiske matematiker Argand (1768-1822), noe som blir misvisende når man vet at Argand foreslo dette i 1806, mens Caspar Wessel foreslo det allerede i 1797. Bioimpedans-gruppen ved Fysisk institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo har foreslått å kalle det komplekse plan for Wessel-planet, og har begynt å bruke dette navnet i sine internasjonale publikasjoner. Hensikten med seminaret er å minne om og levendegjøre Wessels store oppdagelse. Bruken av det komplekse plan er viktig i vekselstrømslæren. Elektrisk impedans kan beskrives som motstand mot vekselstrøm. Det viser seg at impedans må karakteriseres ikke bare som motstand mot strømgjennomgang, men også ved sin evne til å forskyve strømmen i tid. Dette betyr at impedans må beskrives med to tall, ikke bare med ett. Og et komplekst tall er nettopp en størrelse som beskrives med to tall. Bruken av komplekse tall inngår i en rekke vitenskaper, kanskje særlig innenfor fysikk/elektronikk og matematikk. Alle ved Universitetet som er interessert i dette er invitert til å delta på Wessel-seminaret 26.november. Seminaret foregår i Wesselstuen der Caspar Wessel bodde sine første leveår.
A Complex History As early as 1787 the Norwegian surveyor caspar wessel (his elder brother JohanHerman was to earn national fame as a Danish poet and writer) had the idea of http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~jagersaa/Complex_plane/Bar.html
Extractions: As early as 1787 the Norwegian surveyor Caspar Wessel (his elder brother Johan Herman was to earn national fame as a Danish poet and writer) had the idea of representing the field of complex numbers geometrically as a 2-dimensional space over the reals , a plane, now universally known as the complex plane [of course history had to wait, among other things, for Richard Dedekind for a rigorous definition of a real number in terms of the "familiar" rationals]. Wessel's publication dates from 1799. Seven years later Argand's (anonymous!) booklet: " " appeared. Its history makes fascinating reading. In Germany one speaks of the: "Gausssche Zahlenebene" after the 1831 work of Gauss. The integer lattice Z i a bi a b in Z a complex plane history
Caspar Wessel - Landmåler Og Matematiker I mitt foredrag vil jeg kort gå inn på caspar wessel som person og MøllerPedersen, Kirsti (1979) caspar wessel og de komplekse tals repræsentation. http://www.ivh.au.dk/kollokvier/nils_voje_johansen_25_02_99.dk.html
Extractions: i koll. G4, Institut for Matematiske Fag Lektor Nils Voje Johansen Matematisk Institutt, UiO, Norge Caspar Wessel - landmåler og matematiker Abstract 10. mars 1797 ble det i Videnskabernes Selskab i København framlagt en artikkel skrevet av landmåler Caspar Wessel. Artikkelen kom på trykk i Selskabets skrifter i 1799 uten å vekke samtidens interesse. Omlag 100 år senere ble artikkelen gjenoppdaget og det viste seg at Wessel i artikkelen hadde gitt en geometrisk representasjon av de komplekse tall. I mitt foredrag vil jeg kort gå inn på Caspar Wessel som person og landmåler - og spesielt fokusere på hans landmålingsjournal fra 1787 hvor han benytter det komplekse plan i forbindelse med kartprojeksjonen. Wessel har altså benyttet seg av det komplekse plan minst 10 år før artikkelen ble skrevet.
Publikationsliste - Kirsti Andersen wessels Work on Complex Numbers and its Place in History, in caspar wessel, caspar wessel og de komplekse tals repræsentation Nordisk Matematisk http://www.ivh.au.dk/personale/kirsti_andersen/publikationsliste.dk.html
Extractions: //Top Navigational Bar III (By BrotherCake @ cake@brothercake.net) //Permission granted/modified by Dynamicdrive.com to include script in archive //For this and 100's more DHTML scripts, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com var wwwbase = "http://www.ivh.au.dk/"; var baseHREF = "http://www.ivh.au.dk/topmenu/"; Publikationsliste - Kirsti Andersen Robervals Method of Tangents, Centaurus Robervals Comparison of the Arclength of a Spiral and a Parabola, Centaurus A note on Bartholin and the Problem of Debeaune, Centaurus An Impression of Mathematics in Denmark in the Period 1600-1800, Centaurus, Matematikken i Danmark 1479-1800, Københavns Universitet 1479-1979 , bind XII, København 1983, 113-156. The Mathematical Technique in Fermats Deduction of the Law of Refraction, Historia Mathematica Some Observations Concerning Mathematicians Treatment of Perspective Constructions in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Mathemata, Festschrift für Helmuth Gericke , ed. M. Folkerts et al., Stuttgart 1984, 409-425. Cavalieris Method of Indivisibles
