The Origins of Modern Finance
by
Mark Davis, Louis Bachelier, Alison Etheridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Théorie de la Spéculation at the Sorbonne. The jury, while noting that the topic was "far away from those usually considered...