Nicolas-François Canard (; c. 1750 – 1833) was a French mathematician, philosopher and economist. He was one of the pioneers of applying mathematics to economic problems, forestalling the works of
Antoine Augustin Cournot
Antoine Augustin Cournot (; 28 August 180131 March 1877) was a French philosopher and mathematician who also contributed to the development of economics.
Biography
Antoine Augustin Cournot was born at Gray, Haute-Saône. In 1821 he entered o ...
,
William Stanley Jevons
William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 183513 August 1882) was an English economist and logician.
Irving Fisher described Jevons's book ''A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy'' (1862) as the start of the mathematical method in ec ...
, and others.
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External links
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Works by Nicolas-François Canard at Google Books
1750 births
1833 deaths
18th-century French mathematicians
19th-century French mathematicians
18th-century French economists
19th-century French economists
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