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The case of Brownian motion: a note on Bachelier's contribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Robert W. Dimand
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1.

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1993

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