Om Directionens Analytiske Betegning Et Forsog Anvendt Fornemmelig Til Plane Og Sphaeriske

by Caspar Wessel

$3,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Copenhagen: Johan Rudolph Thiele, 1799. First edition, journal issue, of the first work to propose a geometric representation of complex numbers. “Wessel’s fame as a mathematician is based entirely on one paper, written in Danish and published in the Mémoires of the Royal Danish Academy, that established his priority in publication of the geometric representation of complex numbers. John Wallis had

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