Description: Study of the Pareto distribution and its affect on life contingencies. Includes examples of the mortality model, actuarial present values, and whole life premiums.

Description: This paper from the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, Pt. 1, No. 44 AB, reproduces some of Bicknell and Nesbitt's key multiple-decrement theory results by building on a statistical foundation.

Description: Describes four papers that provide excellent overviews of rather different topics that should be of considerable value to practicing actuaries interested in being informed about activity on the frontier of actuarial science and still important today.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 1 is a book review of G. H. Hardy's book, A Mathematician's Apology.

Description: Actuarial literature in the twenty-five years includes discussions of a well known inequality. Among the recent papers on various aspects of this classic result are those by Berin 1970, Olson 1975 and Sarason 1960. A standard method for achieving this inequality uses Jensen's inequality. This is the method used by Bowers, et al 1983. We will also employ this method in an attempt to learn about it.