# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caspar-wessel
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:03:38.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caspar-wessel"
name: "Caspar Wessel"
slug: "caspar-wessel"
description: "Caspar Wessel was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the complex plane and vectors."
tagline: "Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer (1745–1818)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1745-06-08"
deathDate: "1818-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.92
  momentum:             1.090909090909091
  historical:           20.16188133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "كاسبر ويسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "کاسپر وسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Vessel"
    title: "Kaspar Vessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Каспар Весель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Каспар Весел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AC%CF%83%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81_%CE%92%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BB"
    title: "Κάσπαρ Βέσελ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "کاسپر وسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Wessel"
    title: "Kaspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wessel"
    title: "Caspar Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Вессель, Каспар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q372017"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump