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The French Contribution

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Forbonnais has the distinction of being the first author to use expressly mathematical reasoning and symbols in French, a language which was later to become the channel of some of the most important developments in mathematical economics. The second volume of his Élémens du Commerce published anonymously in 1754 contains two such instances.

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  1. Forbonnais, Élémens du commerce 2nd edn., vol. 11 (1766) pp. 113–14.

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Theocharis, R.D. (1983). The French Contribution. In: Early Developments in Mathematical Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04949-3_5

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