This paper is devoted to a spark of genius, a brainwave derived from Dimitrie Cantemir’s inexhaustible thinking; among numberless other facets of that huge personality endowed with exceptional intellectual ability, also counts his capacity as the first shaper of Romanian statistical thinking,...

Using the simple method of index numbers, and synthesizing the originality of his excellent statistical thinking by definition, this article identifies and presents an inimitable shortcut from Index – Numbers’ method to elasticity method. A final remark underlines the beauty and the rigour...