An Essay on Probabilities and their Application to Life Contingencies and Insurance Offices

An Essay on Probabilities, and Their Application to Life Contingencies and Insurance Offices
By Augustus de Morgan of Trinity College Cambridge
1838
Inside Front Cover
Sticker showing this book was awarded to a student for first prize in mathematics.		 PDF
Note inside front cover
Another note about gifting this book		 PDF
Title Page with illustration PDF
Another handwritten note re: de Morgan’s age puzzle PDF
Preface PDF
Table of Contents PDF
Chapter I
On the notion of probability and it’s measurement; on the province of mathematics with regard to it, and reply to objections		 PDF
Chapter II
On Direct Probabilities		 PDF
Chapter III
On Inverse Probabilities		 PDF
Chapter IV
Use of the Tables at the end of this Work		 PDF
Chapter V
On the Risk of Loss or Gain		 PDF
Chapter VI
On common Notations with regard to Probability		 PDF
Chapter VII
On Errors of Observation, and Risks of Mistake		 PDF
Chapter VIII
On the Application of Probabilities to Life Contingencies		 PDF
Chapter IX
On Annuities and other Money Contingencies		 PDF
Chapter X
On the Value of Reversions and Insurances		 PDF
Chapter XI
On the Nature of the Contract of Insurance, and on the Risks of Insurance Offices in General		 PDF
Chapter XII
On the Adjustment of the Interests of the Different Members in an Insurance Office		 PDF
Chapter XIII
Miscellaneous Subjects Connected with Insurance, &c.		 PDF
Addition to Chapter X PDF
Appendix the First
On the Ultimate Chances of Gain or Loss at Play, With a Particular Application to the game of Rouge et Noir		 PDF
Appendix the Second
On the Rule for Determining the Value of Successive Lives and of Copyhold Estates		 PDF
Appendix the Third
On the Rule for Determining the Probabilities of Survivorship
Appendix the Fourth
On the Average Result of a Number of Observations
Approximate Integration		 PDF
Appendix the Fifth
On the Method of Calculating Uniformly decreasing or Increasing Annuities		 PDF
Appendix the Sixth
On a Question Connected with the Valuation of the Assets of an Insurance Office		 PDF
Table I PDF
Table II PDF