Abstract
Irving Fisher had provided the world with the first formal and elegant model to motivate personal finance. But while his analysis refined and expanded the state of the art of mathematical methods in finance theory until the middle of the early twentieth century, he was unable to tease from the analysis what must be left for more elaborate techniques.
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Read, C. (2011). The Times. In: The Life Cyclists. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349445_9
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