Antoine Augustin Cournot

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Antoine Augustin Cournot was a 19th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and economist best known for pioneering the mathematical analysis of markets and oligopoly in economics.

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instanceOf economist
human
mathematician
philosopher
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1801-08-28
dateOfDeath 1877-03-31
educatedAt University of Paris NERFINISHED
École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED
employer Academy of Besançon NERFINISHED
University of Lyon NERFINISHED
familyName Cournot NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork economics
mathematics
philosophy
political economy
probability theory
gender male
givenName Antoine NERFINISHED
Augustin NERFINISHED
influenced Joseph Bertrand NERFINISHED
Léon Walras NERFINISHED
modern microeconomics
influencedBy Adam Smith NERFINISHED
Joseph-Louis Lagrange NERFINISHED
Pierre-Simon Laplace NERFINISHED
knownFor Cournot competition
Cournot duopoly model
application of calculus to economic theory
mathematical economics
oligopoly theory
languageOfWorkOrName French
mainInterest market structure
oligopoly
philosophy of science
probability
movement classical economics
notableWork Essai sur les fondements de nos connaissances et sur les caractères de la critique philosophique NERFINISHED
Exposition de la théorie des chances et des probabilités NERFINISHED
Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth France
Gray, Haute-Saône NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld inspector general of public instruction
professor of analysis and mechanics at the University of Lyon
rector of the Academy of Grenoble
publicationDate 1838

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Leon Walras influencedBy Antoine Augustin Cournot
subject surface form: Léon Walras