The History of Actuarial Science Vol II

Steven Haberman, Trevor A. Sibbett

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040246061
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• 1. 1760 Leonhard Euler, A General Investigation into the Mortality and Multiplication of Human Species
• 2. 1766 Pehr Wargentin, Mortality in Sweden
• 3. 1783 Richard Price, Observations on Reversionary Payments
• 4. 1793 Edward Wigglesworth, A Table shewing the Expectation of Life in the States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
• 5. 1815 Joshua Milne, A Treatise on the Valuation of Annuities and Assurances
• 6. 1825 Benjamin Gompertz, On the Nature of the Function expressive ofthe Law of Human Mortality
• 7. 1826 Thomas Young, A Formula for expressing the Decrement of Human Life
• 8. 1829 John Finlaison, A Report on Life Annuities
• 9. 1832 Thomas Rowe Edmonds, Life Tables founded upon the Discovery ofa Numerical Law
• 10. 1833 Francis Corbaux, On the Natural and Mathematical Laws concerning Population, Vitality, and Mortality
• 11. 1838 Augustus de Morgan, An Essay on Probabilities
• 12. 1859 William Makeham, On the Law of Mortality and the Construction of Annuity Tables
• 13. 1870 Ludvig Oppermann, On the Graduation of Life Tables
• 14. 1875 Wilhelm Lexis, Diagram from Introduction to the Theory ofPopulation Statistics
• 15. 1877 Wilhelm Lexis, On the Theory of Mass Distribution in Human Society