Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, which are excerpts from the author's presidential address to the Southeastern Actuaries Club in November 1982 where Professor Batten demonstrates a lack of approval of the new education syllabus and outlines his concerns. In particular, the author is concerned that the education syllabus is moving too far in the direction of theoretical statistical techniques at the expense of teaching practical subjects such a demography and life contingencies.

Description: The author comments on the article Exposure Formulas Based on the Assumption of Uniform Distribution of Deaths written by T.N.E. Greville.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to problems that is general in nature in that it requires neither diagrams no integration - only a clear understanding of basic symbols and concepts involved. Problems involving stationary populations are among the few types of actuarial problems which can be generally handled by appealing only to basic priciples. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 59 AB.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 1 that talks about the actuarial science program at Georgia State University.