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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Bachelier has received more than 248,742 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Louis Bachelier is the 495th most popular mathematician (up from 500th in 2019), the 3,252nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,073rd in 2019) and the 78th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Louis Bachelier ranks 495 out of 823. Before him are William Thurston, Willem 's Gravesande, Johannes de Muris, John Pell, Giovanni Antonio Magini, and Jacques Herbrand. After him are Georg Mohr, Jacques Ozanam, Frigyes Riesz, Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, W. V. D. Hodge, and William Kingdon Clifford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Louis Bachelier ranks 94. Before him are John Boland, Amadeo Giannini, Joseph Strauss, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Albert Sechehaye, and Evgeny Paton. After him are Conrad Böcker, Édouard Le Roy, Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Nikolay Lossky, Elizabeth Hesselblad, and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf. Among people deceased in 1946, Louis Bachelier ranks 121. Before him are Ferdinand Marian, Matteo Bartoli, Albert Sechehaye, Grigory Neujmin, Dion Fortune, and W. C. Fields. After him are Ioannis Rallis, Paul Lincke, Cesare Orsenigo, Victor Loret, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, and Jenny Nyström.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Bachelier ranks 3,252 out of 6,011. Before him are François Bayrou (1951), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), Henry Becque (1837), Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755), Boris Cyrulnik (1937), and Marcel Bozzuffi (1928). After him are Jean-Christophe Bouvet (1947), Jacques Villeret (1951), Alfred Grandidier (1836), Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697), Jane Dieulafoy (1851), and Jacques Ozanam (1640).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Louis Bachelier ranks 78. Before him are Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jean Leray (1906), Yves Meyer (1939), Johannes de Muris (1290), and Jacques Herbrand (1908). After him are Jacques Ozanam (1640), René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), and Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581).

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