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Caspar Wessel

1745 - 1818

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Caspar Wessel (8 June 1745 – 25 March 1818) was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caspar Wessel has received more than 82,304 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Caspar Wessel is the 371st most popular mathematician (up from 398th in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from Norway (up from 145th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Norwegian Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Caspar Wessel ranks 371 out of 1,004. Before him are Heisuke Hironaka, George Green, Otto Hesse, Roger Cotes, Klaus Roth, and Diocles. After him are Plato Tiburtinus, Yakov Sinai, Edward Kasner, Philipp Frank, Felix Bernstein, and Hypsicles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Caspar Wessel ranks 28. Before him are Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Denis Fonvizin, Maxim Berezovsky, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Isaac Titsingh, and Bodawpaya. After him are Olaudah Equiano, Johann Peter Frank, François-Jean de la Barre, Antonio José Cavanilles, Gim Hongdo, and Johann Anton Güldenstädt. Among people deceased in 1818, Caspar Wessel ranks 25. Before him are Marcello Bacciarelli, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Leopold Koželuch, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, and Johann Nikolaus Forkel. After him are Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Herman Willem Daendels, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Matvei Platov, Inō Tadataka, and Olof Swartz.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Caspar Wessel ranks 136 out of 1,039. Before him are Johan Bojer (1872), Naddodd (900), Thekla Resvoll (1871), Harriet Backer (1845), Ivar Ballangrud (1904), and Anne Jahren (1963). After him are Margit Sandemo (1924), Jørgen Juve (1906), Johan Nygaardsvold (1879), Viggo Brun (1885), Euronymous (1968), and Per Petterson (1952).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Norway

Among mathematicians born in Norway, Caspar Wessel ranks 5. Before him are Niels Henrik Abel (1802), Sophus Lie (1842), Atle Selberg (1917), and Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832). After him are Viggo Brun (1885), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), Thoralf Skolem (1887), Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795), Axel Thue (1863), Carl Størmer (1874), and Øystein Ore (1899).

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