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MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667-1754). Annuities upon Lives: or, the Valuation of Annuities upon any Number of Lives; as also, of Reversions. To which is added, an Appendix concerning the Expectations of Life, and Probabilities of Survivorship. London: W.P., 1775.
8o (194 x 126 mm). Collation: s4 (2 title, 3-4 dedication, without 1 presumably blank), A4 (preface); A-P4 (text, P3r-v tables, P4 blank; errata slip inserted between P3 and P4). 18th-century speckled calf, spine gilt (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. Moivre formulated the theory of annuities from a postulated uniform rate of mortality and constant rates fo interest on money. In determining the rate of mortality he used the mortality statistics gathered by Edmund Halley in the 1690s (included in the tables at end). "Here one finds the treatment of joint annuities on several lives, the inheritance of annuities, problems about the fair division of the costs of a tontine, and other contracts in which both age and interest on capital are relevent. This mathematics became a standard part of all subsequent commercial applications in England" (DSB). Kress 3595; Norman 1530.
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FIRST EDITION. Moivre formulated the theory of annuities from a postulated uniform rate of mortality and constant rates fo interest on money. In determining the rate of mortality he used the mortality statistics gathered by Edmund Halley in the 1690s (included in the tables at end). "Here one finds the treatment of joint annuities on several lives, the inheritance of annuities, problems about the fair division of the costs of a tontine, and other contracts in which both age and interest on capital are relevent. This mathematics became a standard part of all subsequent commercial applications in England" (DSB). Kress 3595; Norman 1530.