Jules Regnault [SEP] country of citizenship
time". He is also one of the first authors who tried to create a "stock exchange science" based on statistical and probabilistic analysis. His hypotheses were used by Louis Bachelier.
Biography.
During the first years of his life, Jules Regnault lived in the département du Nord (France) where his father worked. When his father died on January 16, 1846, in Paris, his family moved to Brussels, where Odilon, Jules’ brother, became a writer and a student at the Université Libre
Louis Bachelier
- Vinzenz Bronzin
References.
- Jules Regnault 1863 "Calcul des chances et philosophie de la bourse", Paris : Mallet-Bachelier and Castel.
- Franck Jovanovic 2004 "Éléments biographiques inédits sur Jules Regnault (1834-1894), inventeur du modèle de marché aléatoire pour représenter les variations boursières", "Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines" 11: 215-230.
- Franck Jovanovic 2006 "Jules Regnault and the origins of scientific financial economics" in "Pioneers of financial economics"