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DEPARCIEUX (Antoine). A Treatise on the Probabilities of Hum…
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DEPARCIEUX (Antoine). A Treatise on the Probabilities of Hum…
See original version (French)
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DEPARCIEUX (Antoine). A Treatise on the Probabilities of Human Life Expectancy: From Which We Deduce the Method for Determining Life Annuities, Both Simple and in Tontines. Paris, Frères Guérin, 1746. – in-4, pale calfskin, red title label. (Contemporary binding). Goldsmiths, no. 8233. - INED, no. 1346. - *Some Landmarks in Actuarial Science*, 1985, p. 13. A rare first edition of this seminal work on modern French actuarial science. This first statistical study on human life expectancy was carried out by Antoine Deparcieux (1703–1768), a skilled mathematician who was a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Societies of Montpellier, Berlin and Stockholm. (T)
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