Frases de Antoine Augustin Cournot

Antoine Augustin Cournot fue un matemático y economista francés impulsor del marginalismo, conocido por sus estudios sobre la oferta y la demanda, tanto en condiciones de competencia como de monopolio. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. agosto 1801 – 31. marzo 1877
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“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.”

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

Fuente: 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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

Fuente: 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