TY - BOOK AU - Promislow,S.David TI - Fundamentals of actuarial mathematics SN - 9781118782460 U1 - 519.82 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Chichester : PB - John Wiley KW - Insurance KW - Mathematics KW - Business mathematics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1 Introduction and motivation-- 2 The basic deterministic model-- 3 The life table-- 4 Life annuities-- 5 Life insurance-- 6 Insurance and annuity reserves-- 7 Fractional durations-- 8 Continuous payments-- 9 Select mortality-- 10 Multiple-life contracts-- 11 Multiple-decrement theory-- 12 Expenses and Profits-- 13 Specialized topics-- 14 Survival distributions and failure times-- 15 The stochastic approach to insurance and annuities-- 16 Simplifications under level benefit contracts-- 17 The minimum failure time-- 18 An introduction to stochastic processes-- 19 Multi-state models-- 20 Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Markets-- 21 Compound distributions-- 22 Risk Assessment-- 23 Ruin models-- 24 Credibility theory-- Appendix A review of probability theory-- References-- Index N2 - This book provides a comprehensive coverage of both the deterministic and stochastic models of life contingencies, risk theory, credibility theory, multi-state models, and an introduction to modern mathematical finance ER -