David R Bellhouse

Gebundenes Buch

Leases for Lives

Life Contingent Contracts and the Emergence of Actuarial Science in Eighteenth-Century England

Beschreibung

This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.

Autor

David R. Bellhouse holds degrees in actuarial science and in statistics. He has been at the University of Western Ontario for more than forty years, where he now is Professor Emeritus. He has published extensively in the history of probability, statistics, and actuarial science, and has recently published a major biography of Abraham De Moivre. Bellhouse is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served as President of the Statistical Society of Canada. He is a recipient of the University of Western Ontario's Gold Medal for Excellence in Teaching, and recently received the University of Manitoba Faculty of Science Honoured Alumni Award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781107111769
• ISBN-10: 1107111765
• Artikelnr.: 48533240