
Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
Bachelier was a stock option trader. He did his thesis while being a trader, which infuriated Poincaré who mistreated him & gave him low marks, hence excluding him from ever having an academic position in Paris. He preceded Einstein's 1905 result (Brownian Motion) by a few years. — PolitiTweet.org
Mathematics & Statistics St Andrews @StA_Maths_Stats
11.III Our Mathematician of the Day is Louis Bachelier a French 🇫🇷 mathematician who is credited with being the fi… https://t.co/uBknLVryZK