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Antoine Augustin Cournot

b. 28 August 1801 d. 30 March 1877

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Unacknowledged in his own times as the founder of mathematical economics, Cournot was both mathematician and philosopher. He publicised the ideas of Bienaymé on the “variability of chances,” and subjected the probability calculus to a perspicacious philosophical critique.

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    C. C. Heyde

  2. Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

    C. C. Heyde

  3. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    E. Seneta

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Martin, T. (2001). Antoine Augustin Cournot. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_31

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