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MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667 – 1754)

MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667 – 1754)

1667 – 1754

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1725 CE

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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.

MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667 – 1754)
MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667 – 1754)

De Moivre, French Huguenot mathematician and demographer, formulated the hypothesis that among a body of persons over a certain age the successive annual decreases by death are nearly equal.