Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks (International Series on Actuarial Science)

Decent introduction to life insurance. The book include lots of simple examples to help getting you started. At the end of each chapter, there are some more demanding excercices with numerical results. If you want to know the steps in between you'll have to buy the solutions manual.

The book is in good condition and useful for this subject

as I expected, it's a good textbook for Life Contingent Mathematics

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This book provides an excellent background to Life contingencies - it is a suitable to modern needs as Alistair Neill was in the past - excellent work.

Excelente para aprender matemáticas actuariales de vida.

Otimo livro para aprender e rever conteudos

This is an excellent, must-have addition to the library of any aspiring actuary. Topics from elementary survival models through multiple-state models are explained clearly and cogently, with great practice problems at the end of each chapter that challenge the student to think critically based on the material presented in each section. I would definitely recommend this book for self-study, as the mathematics are clearly developed in each section and the various real-world drawbacks and consequences of particular models are discussed in-depth. None of the math is of the "don't try this at home" level, but obviously you have to be quite comfortable with differential and integral calculus. For the sake of brevity and orderliness, many of the intermediate steps are not shown in the proofs and derivations of formulas, so if you absolutely have to know, it's on you to do the messy algebra work. On the whole, this tends to serve as a very good exercise and will help you to be able to develop the mathematics for yourself; personally I find that one of the most important parts of learning independently is self-reliance and a willingness to think critically, and this book will certainly encourage that. This is an all-around excellent purchase that you cannot go wrong with. An outstanding treatise on the mathematics used in one of the world's top professional fields.

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Muy buen libro para practicar con alto grado de dificultad.