1st Edition
The History of Actuarial Science Vol X
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. X: 1. 1780 Charles Brand, Tables of Interest, Discount,Annuities &c. 2. 1828 William Morgan, Appendix to A View of the Rise and Progress of the Equitable Society 3. 1839 Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse, Investigation of Mortality in the Indian Army 4.1843 A Committee of Actuaries, Tables exhibiting the Law of Mortality 5.1851 Charles Gill, Actuary's Report to the Board of Trustees of Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York 6. 1862 Theodor Wittstein, The Mortality in Companies with successive entering and exiting Members 7. 1906 William Palin Elderton, On a form of Spurious Selection 8. 1912 William Palin Elderton and Richard Clift Fippard, Notes on the Construction of Mortality Tables 9. 1912 Paul Eugen Bohmer, Theory of independent Probabilities 10. 1865 Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse, On Interpolation Summation and the Adjustment of Numerical Tables 11. 1873 Seth C. Chandler Jnr, On the Construction of a Graduated Table of Mortality 12. 1873 Erastus L. De Forest, On some Methods of Interpolation 13. 1881 Thomas Bond Sprague, Explanation ofa New Formula for Interpolation Consolidated Index to Volumes 1-X
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Edited by Steven Haberman, Trevor A. Sibbett
