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Supplementary Remarks on “Auxiliary Tables for Life Contingencies”, including notice of a recent Table by W. T. Thomson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Frederick Hendriks Esq.*
Affiliation:
Standard Life Assurance Company

Extract

Having been favoured by Mr. W. T. Thomson with a copy of his large Table, “Carlisle 3 Per Cent.,” and believing that the insertion of a notice of such laborious and useful computations as are brought together in that extensive work is in accordance with the objects of the Assurance Magazine, I beg to offer a brief explanation of some of the most important features of the Table; and such notice will afford an opportunity of referring to particulars which it appears desirable to annex to those submitted in my former paper.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1851

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page 15 note * The way in which Dale treats his subject is both laborious and diffuse,— his admissions are ingenuous enough in that regard—and if those who are still found to advocate the explanation of mathematical rules without their generalization or reduction to formulæ and symbolic notation, would but read Dale's book carefully through, the process in many cases would lead to their entertaining a very different opinion. Let those, however, to whom the matter is new, first peruse the notice respecting a certain error of Dale, which is given in Baron Maseres' work, “The Principles of the Doctrine of Life Annuities, & c. London : 1783.”