Mathematical Theory of Life Insurance

by Chester Hume Forsyth. John Wiley and Sons.

There are numerous massive treatises on the mathematical theory of life insurance but few are suitable as textbooks in undergraduate courses in college or university, being usually lacking in lists of exercises and other particulars which render the subject riiatter teachable. This book includes the standard treatment of the fundamental theory—with some original and concise developments by the author—but the principal merit of the book lies in its presentation,—for the first time in any textbook— of the methods of valuating policies, peculiar to the United States; the treatment is developed along original lines by the author.

The book is very concise and includes just about the material required for a one-semester course. The book will, no doubt, be improved by more extensive lists of exercises which are being prepared by the author with the cooperation of various teachers who are now using the book, in other institutions. It is being used at Dartmouth, Michigan, and other colleges.

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