"PAUL Samuelson, whose analytical work laid the foundation for modern economics, died Sunday in Belmont, Mass., after a brief illness. He was 94.After graduating from Chicago in 1935 he went to Harvard University for his graduate work. His 1941 doctoral thesis, later published as "Foundations of Economic Analysis," examined the mathematical structure underlying economics. The approach revolutionized the field, to the point where economists today are often consumed in the mathematical proofs of their theories.
"For me, it is a special bereavement," said Princeton University economist Avinash Dixit. "My whole style of research, and the techniques that support almost all of my own papers, derive from his foundational articles."
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