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Antoine Augustin Cournot, mais conhecido como Cournot foi um matemático e economista francês, propulsor das teorias marginalistas, conhecido por seus estudos sobre a oferta e a demanda nos termos da competição monopolística. Ele estudou na Ecole Normale Superieure, em Paris, onde se graduou em 1823. Foi professor de Análise Matemática da Universidade de Lyon em 1834, e Reitor da Academia de Dijon de 1854 a 1862.

Cournot é considerado como o matemático que começou a sistematização formal da economia. Foi o primeiro a usar funções matemáticas para descrever conceitos econômicos, tais como demanda, oferta e preço. Ao analisar os mercados em monopólio, estabeleceu o ponto de equilíbrio de monopólio, chamado de ponto de Cournot. Ele também estudou o duopólio e oligopólio, estabelecendo o conhecido modelo de Cournot. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Agosto 1801 – 31. Março 1877
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Cournot: Frases em inglês

“The employment of mathematical symbols is perfectly natural when the relations between magnitudes are under discussion; and even if they are not rigorously necessary, it would hardly be reasonable to reject them, because they are not equally familiar to all readers and because they have sometimes been wrongly used, if they are able to facilitate the exposition of problems, to render it more concise, to open the way to more extended developments, and to avoid the digressions of vague argumentation.”

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Antoine Augustin Cournot Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth

Fonte: Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, 1897, pp. 3-4; Cited in: Moritz (1914, 199)

“In the act of exchange, as in the transmission of power by machinery, there is friction to be overcome, losses which must be borne, and limits which cannot be exceeded.”

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Antoine Augustin Cournot Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth

Fonte: Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, 1897, p. 9

“Anyone who understands algebraic notation, reads at a glance in an equation results reached arithmetically only with great labour and pains.”

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Antoine Augustin Cournot Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth

Fonte: Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, 1897, p. 4; Cited in: Moritz (1914, 197): About mathematics as language

“So far we have studies how, for each commodity by itself, the law of demand in connection with the conditions of production of that commodity, determines the price of it and regulates the incomes of its producers. We considered as given and invariable the prices of other commodities and the incomes of other producers; but, in reality the economic system is a whole of which the parts are connected and react on each other. An increase in the incomes of the producers of commodity A will affect the demand for commodities Band C, etc., and the incomes of their producers, and, by its reaction will involve a change in the demand for A. It seems, therefore, as if, for a complete and rigorous solution of the problems relative to some parts of the economic system, it were indispensable to take the entire system into consideration. But this would surpass the powers of mathematical analysis and of our practical methods of calculation, even if the values of all the constants could be assigned to them numerically.”

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Antoine Augustin Cournot Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth

Fonte: Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, 1897, p. 137

“Those skilled in mathematical analysis know that its object is not simply to calculate numbers, but that it is also employed to find the relations between magnitudes which cannot be expressed in numbers and between functions whose law is not capable of algebraic expression.”

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Antoine Augustin Cournot Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth

Fonte: Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, 1897, p. 3 ; Cited in: Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/198/mode/2up, (1914) p. 33: About the nature of mathematics