E599 -- Solutio quaestionis ad calculum probabilitatis pertinentis: Quantum duo coniuges persolvere debeant, ut suis haeredibus post utriusque mortem certa argenti summa persolvatur
(Solution to a question concerning the calculation of probability: How much should be paid by a couple, so that a certain sum of money can be paid to the heir after the death of the other)
Summary:
According to the records, it was presented to the St.
Petersburg Academy on June 10, 1776.
Publication:
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Originally published in Opuscula Analytica 2, 1785, pp. 315-330.
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 7, pp. 393 - 407
Documents Available:
- Original Publication: E599
- Euler published four other works on life insurance and annuities, listed below:
- E334, Recherches generales sur la mortalite et la multiplication du genre humain
- E335, Sur les rentes viageres
- 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
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