Bachelier and His Times: A Conversation with Bernard Bru

Louis Bachelier defended his thesis “Theory of Speculation” in 1900. He used Brownian motion as a model for stock exchange performance. This conversation with Bernard Bru illustrates the scientific climate of his times and the conditions under which Bache

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Helyette Geman Dilip Madan Stanley R. Pliska Ton Vorst (Editors)

Mathematical FinanceBachelier Congress 2000 Selected Papers from the First World Congress of the BacheHer Finance Society, Paris, June 29-July 1, 2000

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Helyette Geman CEREMADE, UMR CNRS 7534. UniversiteParis IX- Dauphine Place du Marechal De Lattre De Tassigny, 75775 Paris Cedext6, France and Groupe ESSEC,Av.Bernhard-Hirsch,B.P. 50105,9502.1 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex,France e-mail: [email protected]

DilipMadan

UniversityofMaryland, Robert H. Smith School ofBusiness, 4427VanMunching Hall,College Park, MD 20742, USA e-mail:[email protected]

Stanley R. Pliska University oflllinois, Department ofFinance, 242 UniversityHall. 6o1 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 6o6o7-7, USA e-mail: [email protected]

Ton Vorst Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdant, Postbus 1738,3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands e-mail:[email protected] Mathematics Subject Classification (2000 ): 91-06,91B28, 91B30, 91Bxx,60-xx, 58}65, 60Gxx,60G40,65C05, 65T50, 93A30 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bachelier Finance Society. World Congress (1st : 2.000 : Paris, France) . Mathematical finance--Bachelier Congress, 2.000 : selected papers from the First Wocld Congress of the Bachelier Pinance Society, Paris, june 29-July 1, 2000 1 Helyette Geman ... [et al] (editors). p. cm. --(Springer finance) Includea bibliografical references aod index. ISBN 978-3-642-08729-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-12429-1

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