Around Caspar Wessel and the geometric representation of complex numbers. Proceedings of the Wessel symposium at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 11--15, 1998
The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually.NEWLINENEWLINEIndexed articles:NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Bjerg, Hans Christian}, The naval hero Peter Tordenskiold \& the Wessel family, 5-18 [Zbl 0989.01010]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Linnestad, Bjørn}, Johan Herman Wessel, 19-28 [Zbl 0994.01005]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Møller Pedersen, Kurt}, Thomas Bugge's journal of a voyage through Germany, Holland and England, 1777, 29-46 [Zbl 0989.01011]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Christensen, Dan Ch.}, English instrument makers observed by predatory Danes, 47-63 [Zbl 0989.01008]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Amelin, Olov}, Instrument maker on the run: A case of technology transfer, 65-79 [Zbl 0989.01021]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Kristensen, L. Kahl}, Wessel as a cartographer, 81-98 [Zbl 0989.01022]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Hamel, Jürgen}, Heinrich Christian Schumacher -- mediator between Denmark and Germany, 99-120 [Zbl 1011.01005]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Bekken, Otto B.}, Viète's generation of triangles, 121-124 [Zbl 1009.01010]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Schubring, Gert}, Argand and the early work on graphical representation: New sources and interpretations, 125-146 [Zbl 1009.01012]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Rice, Adrian}, Inexplicable? The status of complex numbers in Britain, 1750--1850, 147-180 [Zbl 0986.01013]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Freguglia, Paolo}, Bellavitis's equipollences calculus and his theory of complex numbers, 181-203 [Zbl 0985.01004]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Schlote, Karl-Heinz}, Hypercomplex numbers in the work of Caspar Wessel and Hermann Günther Grassmann: Are there any singularities?, 205-222 [Zbl 0992.01005]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Lützen, Jesper}, Julius Petersen, Karl Weierstrass, Hermann Amandus Schwarz and Richard Dedekind on hypercomplex numbers, 223-254 [Zbl 1020.01004]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Archibald, Tom}, Priority claims and mathematical values: Disputes over quaternions at the end of the nineteenth century, 255-269 [Zbl 1019.01006]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Rowe, David E.}, On the role of imaginary elements in 19th-century geometry, 271-293 [Zbl 1019.01007]
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