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Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten

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Nationality
  
German

Name
  
Wenceslaus Gustav

Institutions
  
University of Halle

Died
  
1787, Halle, Germany


Alma mater
  
University of Rostock

Education
  
University of Rostock

Known for
  
Complex logarithms

Fields
  
Mathematics

Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten

Born
  
December 15, 1732 Neubrandenburg (
1732-12-15
)

Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten (15 December 1732 – 17 April 1787) was a German mathematician. In 1768, Karsten published a graphic representation of infinitely many logarithms of real and complex numbers.

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