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, foreshadowing the works of
Antoine Augustin Cournot
Antoine Augustin Cournot (; 28 August 180131 March 1877) was a French philosopher and mathematician who contributed to the development of economics.
Biography
Antoine Augustin Cournot was born on August 28, 1801 in Gray, Haute-Saône. He ent ...
,
William Stanley Jevons
William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 1835 – 13 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 i ...
, and others.
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External links
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Works by Nicolas-François Canard at Google Books
1750s births
1833 deaths
18th-century French mathematicians
19th-century French mathematicians
18th-century French economists
19th-century French economists
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