عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QA29.M5237
QA29
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M5237
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1107530393
(Number (ISBN
1108518060
(Number (ISBN
110852253X
(Number (ISBN
1108524028
(Number (ISBN
1316282228
(Number (ISBN
9781107530393
(Number (ISBN
9781108518062
(Number (ISBN
9781108522533
(Number (ISBN
9781108524025
(Number (ISBN
9781316282229
Erroneous ISBN
1107111765
Erroneous ISBN
9781107111769
Erroneous ISBN
9781107530393
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Leases for lives :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
life contingent contracts and the emergence of actuarial science in eighteenth-century England /
First Statement of Responsibility
David R. Bellhouse, University of Western Ontario.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Cover; Half-Title; Title Page; Imprints Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Mathematics and Property in the Seventeenth Century; 3 Edmond Halley's Life Table; 4 Halley's Impact or Lack of It; 5 De Moivre and His Early Influence; 6 Mathematicians as Consultants; 7 Mathematicians and Early Life Insurance Companies; 8 The Annuity Bubble of the 1760s and 1770s; 9 The Aftershocks of the Bubble, Their Impact on Life Annuities; 10 Developments in the Life Insurance Industry in the Later Eighteenth Century; 11 A Return to Roots; 12 Conclusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
MIL
Stock Number
1021322
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Leases for lives.
International Standard Book Number
1107111765
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Halley, Edmond,1656-1742.
Moivre, Abraham de,1667-1754.
Halley, Edmond,1656-1742.
Moivre, Abraham de,1667-1754.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mathematicians-- Great Britain, Biography.
Mathematics-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Probabilities-- History-- 18th century.
Intellectual life.
Mathematicians.
MATHEMATICS-- Essays.
MATHEMATICS-- Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS-- Reference.
Mathematics.
Probabilities.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain, Intellectual life, 18th century.
Great Britain.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
MAT-- 023000
MAT-- 026000
MAT-- 039000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
510
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92
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA29
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M5237
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Bellhouse, David R.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200822145914.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
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ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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