Bachelier
Abstract
It is not generally known that the theory of Brownian motion developed by both Einstein and Smoluchowski had been anticipated by a French mathematician named Louis Bachelier in his doctoral thesis. Bachelier and his work are explored.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- May 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.1848117
- Bibcode:
- 2005AmJPh..73..395B
- Keywords:
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- 01.50.-i;
- 01.65.+g;
- 01.60.+q;
- 05.40.Jc;
- Educational aids;
- History of science;
- Biographies tributes personal notes and obituaries;
- Brownian motion