Casper Wesselmade a significant contribution to mathematics, but his legacy is to be a footnote in histories of other great mathematicians. Karl Friedrich Gauss and Jean Robert Argand are most often given credit for expressing complex numbersas...

1745-1818 Norwegian surveyor and mathematician whose experience with cartography led him to interesting insights concerning relationships that exist among algebra, trigonometry, and geometry. Wessel's sole published paper, on the geometrical...

Caspar Wessel (June 8, 1745 - March 25, 1818) was a Norwegian-Danish mathematician. Wessel was born in Jonsrud, Vestby, Akershus, Norway. In 1763, having completed secondary school, he went to Denmark for further studies (Norway having no university at...

It may seem odd that a man known as "Cap the Knife" for his efforts to cut government spending in the Nixon administration could go on to oversee the biggest peacetime increase in defense spending. To Caspar Weinberger, the math was simple: "We won...

Ellen Wessel's story was a fairy tale with dollar signs. With $2,000 in savings and a sewing machine, she and a partner had left their government jobs and, out of a one-bedroom apartment, started producing running clothes for women. It was a novel...