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Alfred Weber was surprised to discover that, since Thunen, the problems of location had been neglected or abandoned to the geographers, despite the economic, social, and technical importance of these problems in an era of international and intranational migrations [27] [36]. Weber restricted his interests to industrial location, since Thunen had already constructed a theory of agricultural location. He does not, however, try to explain the location of trade, credit and capital. The distinction, which has gradually been disappearing, between agricultural and industrial location theories was significant in spatial economics up to Losch, and even afterwards.
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Except for those who are not consumers, for example the stockholders.
See [27] Part.II: Die deutsche Industrie seit 1860.
Cf.Mathematical Appendix II,l. As early as the 17th Century, two mathematicians. Fermât and Cavalieri and a physicist, Torricelli had examined the problem of determining a point at which the sum of the distances to the corners of a triangle is minimal. In the case of n points, the “Torricelli point” is the point, if it exists, such that the resultant of the unitary vectors aiming from that point to the n given points is zero.
Cf.Mathematical Appendix 11,2.
Cf.Mathematical Appendix 11,3.
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Ponsard, C. (1983). Alfred Weber. In: History of Spatial Economic Theory. Texts and Monographs in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82125-7_5
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