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Caspar Wessel

Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer (1745–1818)

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Lived 1745–1818, aged 73Norway
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  • Era
    1745–1818
    Aged 73
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Updated 2026-06-19

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.

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