1st Edition
The History of Actuarial Science Vol I
A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century. There are reprints of the most important treatises, pamphlets, tables and writings which trace the development of the actuarial industry.
Vol. I: Preface The History of Actuarial Science 1.200 Domitius Ulpianus, Ulpian's Table 2. 1657 Company of Parish Clerks, London's Dreadful Visitation 3. 1662 John Graunt, Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality 4. 1669 Christiaan and Ludwig Huygens, Extracts from Letters 5. 1671 Johan de Witt, Value of Life Annuities 6. 1693 Edmund Halley, An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind 7. 1709 Nicholas Bernoulli, De Usu Arlis Conjectandi in Jure 8. 1737 John Smart, A Letter to George Heathcote re Tables of Bills of Morality 9. 1740 Nicholas Struyck, Appendix to Introduction to General Geography 10. 1746 Antoine Deparcieux, Table XIII from Essay on=the Probabilities of the Duration of Human Life 11. 1761 Thomas Watkins, A Letter to William Brakenridge re the Tem1s and Period of Human Life
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Edited by Steven Haberman, Trevor A. Sibbett
