Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, which is article no. 10 in a series. This particular article discusses the 1978 institute and faculty proposal on notation. A proposal presented in June 1978 by a study group of the Institute and Faculty Joint Working Party on Computers and Actuarial Notation provides an excellent summary of the problems faced by innovators in this field, as well as the consequences of clinging to the present notation.

Description: This is article no. 6 in a series and discusses the proposed actuarial notation by Engelfriet and Kool. The proposed notation is linear in nature no superscripts or subscripts and uses the keys on the typewriter.

Description: In October 1971, a committee of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia proposed a new actuarial notation, built on the proposal of Boehm, Reichel et al, but more practical. This article highlights the proposed notation.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, that is article no. 7 in a series discussing an actuarial notation based on a symbolic logic.

Description: This is Article No. 3 in a series summarizing the proposal by Adam, Boehm and thirteen other European actuaries to the 19th International Congress concerning new actuarial notation. This was the simplified version of what they had presented four years earlier.

Description: In March 1972, Peter J. Turvey, F.I.A. proposed to the lnstitute of Actuaries Students Society a notation that dealt only with the present range of symbols and was limited to the standard computer print characters. This article describes the notation.

Description: This article outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the present actuarial notation and the reasons for proposing to change the notation.

Description: This is Article No. 2 in a series about a current reform proposal about actuarial notation reform. Current reform negotiations have their origins in a paper presented to the 1968 International Congress of Actuaries by Boehm and Reichel in collaboration with nine other German-speaking actuaries.

Description: This is article No. 8 in a series that discusses the second notation proposal from Australia and New Zealand. In March 1976, a subcommittee of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and New Zealand put forward another actuarial notation proposal.

Description: This is an article detailing the notation controversy from a European perspective.