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Formatting of actuarial notation
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Attempt to display the following table
as an in-line element. A table as an in-line element is possible, but only if you modify the surrounding paragraph to be inline as well.
The same but with the central character outside of a table
A
looks nearly the same, although the central character is more consistent with surrounding text.
Usage
Possible user formatting: "^2_m| Abar ^1_x:n¬"?
Replacement glyphs:
Code |
Display
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adue |
ä
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Adue |
Ä
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@bar |
@
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...where "@" represents any character.
Extension
Use cases:
- Annuity (a)
- Accumulation (s)
- Assurance (A, (IA))
- Premium (P)
- Commutation functions (D, N, S, C, M, R) to allow for m-thly frequencies
Not required for: i, d, v, l, q, p, μ
Need to allow for multiple contingent events:
- x for whole of life
- x:n¬ for endowment
- x'1:n¬ for term
- x:n¬'1 for pure endowment
- x:y:n¬ for joint-life endowment
Formatting issues
Problems with clashing lines:
äx + än
= äx:n
+ äx:n
An n-year-guaranteed annual annuity due:
Article clean-up list
Actuarial software
References
People snippets
Exclude living actuaries from this list.
- Roman jurist
Ulpian (c. 170–223) created the earliest known life table, used for maintenance annuities on slaves' lives
- pioneering demographer
John Graunt (1620–1674), who demonstrated longevity patterns, was a haberdasher by trade
- Dutch politician
Johan de Witt (1625–1672) expressed life annuities as the weighted average of annuities certain
- economist
Nicholas Barbon (1640–1698) founded the first UK fire insurance office, and had a truly remarkable middle name
- astronomer
Edmond Halley (1656–1742), famed for studying Halley's Comet, constructed one of the first life tables
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James Dodson (c. 1705–1757) set the foundations for Equitable Life because at age 47 he was refused life assurance for being too old
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Richard Price (1723–1791) wrote the basis for financial calculations of insurance and benefit societies
- in 1786 philosopher
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736–1807) published the first work to discuss risk measures
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William Morgan (1750–1833), who laid the foundations of the actuarial profession, was the first experimenter with X-rays
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Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), known for his law of mortality, was self-taught because Jews were barred from universities
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John Finlaison (1783–1860) was the first president of the Institute of Actuaries, the oldest actuarial professional body
- mathematician
Elizur Wright (1804–1885) campaigned and devised formulae for life insurers to pay and reserve for surrender values
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Thomas Bond Sprague (1830–1920) was the only (pre-merger) President of both the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries
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Esprit Jouffret (1837–1904) wrote a treatise on four-dimensional geometry which influenced Pablo Picasso's art
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Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910) was also the director of the Copenhagen Observatory, and two asteroids are named after him
- in 1917
Alfred Watson (1870–1936) was appointed as Britain's first Government Actuary following the National Insurance Act 1911
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Johan Frederik Steffensen (1873–1961) developed a root-finding technique with quadratic convergence without using derivatives
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Maurice Princet (1875–1973) introduced the concept of the fourth dimension to artists, leading to the birth of cubism
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Sverre Krogh (1883–1957) was an informer for the German security police during the Nazi occupation of Norway in World War II
- in 1929
Harald Cramér (1893–1985) was appointed the first Swedish professor of Actuarial Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
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Andreas Tømmerbakke (1910–1994) was an important member of Milorg, the Norwegian resistance group during World War II
- in 1978
Max Lacroix (1913–2009) founded the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen, which advises the EU on actuarial issues
- in 1995
an actuary helped the Penguin plan crimes by exploiting scenario probabilities, but was ultimately foiled by Batman
Others?
Henrik Palmstrøm ·
Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark
To do:
Filip Lundberg ·
Anders Lindstedt ·
Category:American actuaries ·
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Category:Canadian actuaries