Abstract
Bachelier was born in Le Havre, France, on 11 March 1870 and died in Saint- Servan-sur-Mer, Ille-et-Vilaine, on 28 April 1946. He taught at Besançon, Dijon and Rennes and was professor at Besançon from 1927 to 1937.
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- Bachelier, L.
- Brownian motion
- Efficient markets
- Levy, P.
- Martingales
- Poincaré, H.
- Probability
- Random walk model
- Speculation
- Wiener process
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Mandelbrot, B.B. (2018). Bachelier, Louis (1870–1946). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_620
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