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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 265,453 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Bachelier is the 505th most popular mathematician (down from 494th in 2019), the 3,377th most popular biography from France (down from 3,239th in 2019) and the 79th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Louis Bachelier ranks 505 out of 1,004. Before him are Johann Benedict Listing, John Hadley, Geminus, Anders Johan Lexell, Jean Frédéric Frenet, and Gerd Faltings. After him are Charles Julien Brianchon, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Hillel Furstenberg, Johann Baptist Cysat, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, and Otto Hölder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Louis Bachelier ranks 96. Before him are Francisco S. Carvajal, Édouard Le Roy, Albert Sechehaye, Nikolay Lossky, Annie Londonderry, and William J. Seymour. After him are Magnus Enckell, Oskar Vogt, Evgeny Paton, John Paine, Conrad Böcker, and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf. Among people deceased in 1946, Louis Bachelier ranks 121. Before him are Karl Groos, Leopold Okulicki, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Safiya Zaghloul, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Erwin Rösener. After him are Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Harry Hopkins, Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, Henri Le Fauconnier, Alexey Sudayev, and Carl Gustav Witt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Bachelier ranks 3,377 out of 6,770. Before him are Othon de la Roche (1200), Clotilde Courau (1969), Éric Serra (1959), Claude Bourgelat (1712), Thierry Lhermitte (1952), and Émile Levassor (1843). After him are Théodore Steeg (1868), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor (1770), Jacques Delille (1738), and Sophie, Countess of Bar (1018).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Louis Bachelier ranks 79. Before him are Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Jean Leray (1906), René de Saussure (1868), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), and Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816). After him are Charles Julien Brianchon (1783), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Henri Brocard (1845), and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842).

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