Annuities Upon Lives Or The Valuation Of Annuities Upon Any Number Of Lives As Also Of Reversions To

by Abraham De Moivre

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First edition

London: William Pearson, 1725. First edition of de Moivre’s application of probability to economics — the short book in which he turned the mathematics of chance on annuities, reversions and leases for lives, working from the Breslau mortality data that Edmond Halley had analysed in the 1690s. Its contribution, in the words of the DSB, lies “not in his evaluation of the demographic facts then known” but

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