Caspar Wessel
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Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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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