Description: Our distinguished colleague Oswald Jacoby had never reported Alan Truscott in The New York: Times held a hand in tournament play as potent as the one he picked up on March 22nd. From The Actuary VOL. 16. No 6

Description: Peter G. Moore, Reason By Numbers. Peter Moore looks at the ways of gathering, presenting and interpreting information and explains the essential arithmetic of resource allocation, planning and decision theory.

Description: This article contains the results of the Query for Actuaries on the meaning and usefulness of calculated ruin probabilities of life insurance companies.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, that discusses the New South Life Case which happens to be one of the mercifully few life companies in which a major deficit has been directly linked to miscalculation of policy reserves.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, discusses 35 members, dubbed two-timers who earned Fellowship in both the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries before these two merged, by passing separate and distinct examinations in each body from the first Associateship part to the last Fellowship part.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1 which talks about the need for actuarial memorabilia.

Description: This article describes the “Arithmeter”, invented by Elizur Wright, to expedite the calculations made necessary by the legislation that he himself had drafted that required the Massachusetts Insurance Department to compute net level premium reserves on all policies in force. One of the few Arithmeters in existence was donated to, and is now in the possession of, the SOA.

Description: These are the reports of the following committees: the Committee to Study Pension Plan Problems, the Committee to Study Pension Accounting, the Educations and Examination Committee, the Committee on Professional Conduct, the Committee on Status and Accreditation and a report on 'The Actuary'. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No 53.

Description: Chronicles the genesis of The Actuary, and pays homage to its first editor, Andrew C. Webster.

Description: This is a summary of the biography of Charles Babbage, 1791-1871, much of whose life was devoted to inventing and constructing machines to free actuaries and other sufferers from the drudgery of repetitive arithmetic.