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THESE two volumes are designed to replace the author's “Elementary Treatise on Actuarial Mathematics”, published in 1931. The replacement is rendered necessary by changes in the mathematical requirements of the examinations controlled by the Institute of Actuaries. Part 1 contains the chapters on trigonometry and elementary calculus taken, with little change, from the earlier book. Part 2 is almost a new work, for the remaining text of the former treatise has not only been re-written and expanded to bring it up to date, but also new chapters on elementary statistics have been added. The first nine chapters, occupying 203 of the 330 pages of text, are devoted to finite differences, and the treatment of this somewhat difficult subject is both interesting and sound. The four remaining chapters are concerned with an elementary discussion of simple probability and statistics. Here, again, the author has developed the subjects with clarity and skill.
Mathematics for Actuarial Students
By Harry Freeman. (Published for the Institute of Actuaries.) Part 1: Elementary Differential and Integral Calculus. Pp. viii + 184. 9s. net. Part 2: Finite Differences, Probability and Elementary Statistics. Pp. xiii + 340. 25s. net. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1939.)
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 659 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145659a0
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