On the analytical representation of direction
Subtitle: an attempt applied chiefly to solving plane and spherical polygons, 1797
By: Caspar Wessel ; trans. by Flemming Damhus ; introductory chapters by Bodil Branner, Nils Voje Johansen and Kirsti Andersen ; edited by Bodil Branner and Jesper Lützen.
Publisher: Reitzel
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Vector analysis.; Geometry -- History.; Numbers, Complex.; Surveyors -- Norway -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: Caspar Wessel (1745-1818). Surveyor and mathematician / by Bodil Branner and Nils Voje Johansen; title: Wessel's work on complex numbers and its place in history / by Kirsti Andersen; title: On the analytical representation of direction. An attempt applied chieflyto solving plane and spherical polygons / by Caspar Wessel.