E335 -- Sur les rentes viageres
(On life annuities)
Summary:
In this paper, Euler derives a formula to facilitate the computation of a life annuity.
Publication:
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 16, 1767, pp. 165-175
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 7, pp. 101 - 112
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E335
- E335 can be viewed or downloaded from Digitalisierte Akademieschriften und Schriften zur Geschichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, which includes serial publications of the Prussian Academy of Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
- English translation (by Todd Doucet): E335
- Euler published four other works on life insurance and annuities, listed below:
- E334, Recherches generales sur la mortalite et la multiplication du genre humain
- E403, Des Herrn Leonard Eulers nothig berechnung zur Einrichtung Einer
- E473, D'un Etablisement publie pour payer des pensions a des veuves fonde sur les principles les plus solides de la probabilité
- E599, Solutio quaestiones ad calculam probabilitatis pertinentis quantiam disconceges persolvere debeant ut suis haeradibus post utriusque mortem certa argenti summa persolvatur
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