Karl Mollweide

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Karl Brandan Mollweide (3 February 1774 – 10 March 1825) was a German mathematician^[1] and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig. In trigonometry, he rediscovered the formula now known as Mollweide's formula. He invented a map projection called the Mollweide projection.