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Louis Bachelier

1870 - 1946

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Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier (French: [baʃəlje]; 11 March 1870 – 28 April 1946) was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part of his doctoral thesis The Theory of Speculation (Théorie de la spéculation, defended in 1900). Bachelier's doctoral thesis, which introduced the first mathematical model of Brownian motion and its use for valuing stock options, was the first paper to use advanced mathematics in the study of finance. His Bachelier model has been influential in the development of other widely used models, including the Black-Scholes model. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Bachelier is the 666th most popular mathematician (down from 505th in 2019), the 3,957th most popular biography from France (down from 3,377th in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Louis Bachelier ranks 666 out of 1,004. Before him are Oswald Veblen, Mihailo Petrović, Robert Simson, Georg Stiernhielm, Alfréd Rényi, and Agner Krarup Erlang. After him are Cesare Arzelà, Richard Montague, Johann Schreck, Đuro Kurepa, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, and Harold Hotelling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Louis Bachelier ranks 114. Before him are Albert Meyer, Dadasaheb Phalke, Henri Jaspar, Safvet-beg Bašagić, John Isaac Briquet, and Max Berg. After him are Emil Młynarski, Amado Nervo, Hans Baluschek, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Jędrzej Moraczewski, and Lars Sonck. Among people deceased in 1946, Louis Bachelier ranks 148. Before him are Alfred Stock, W. C. Fields, Ada Adler, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Olivér Halassy, and Blanche Bingley. After him are Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Federico Laredo Brú, Moisei Ginzburg, Henri Le Fauconnier, Harry Edwin Wood, and Rafael Erich.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Bachelier ranks 3,957 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Michael Vartan (1968), Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1920), Auguste Duméril (1812), and Elizabeth of Nevers (1439). After him are Gaston Defferre (1910), André Gill (1840), Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910), Jacques Lecoq (1921), and Edmond Frémy (1814).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Louis Bachelier ranks 95. Before him are Jacques Herbrand (1908), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957). After him are Pierre-Louis Lions (1956), Edmond Laguerre (1834), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), Charles Dupin (1784), Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819), and Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765).

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