| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910788991503321 |
|
|
Autore |
Ronk Martha Clare |
|
|
Titolo |
Why, why not [[electronic resource] /] / Martha Ronk |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-282-76289-3 |
9786612762895 |
0-520-93711-2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (101 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
New California poetry ; ; v. 8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
American poetry - 21st century |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Perplexities -- 2. Why Knowing Is -- 3. Why/Why Not -- Acknowledgments |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Why/Why Not presents a speaker caught in quandaries created by changing perspectives, fervors, and locales. Why do we act one way here and another there; why can't a mind stay made up; why do we hate and love at the same time; why does memory fade or insist; why does the ordinary seem so uncanny? These questions are captured in lines that collide and merge, in irreverent and offhand jibes, and in plaintive repetitions.Why/Why Not moves across a vivid terrain-the stage of Hamlet, Phillip Marlowe's Los Angeles, Prague, paintings and gardens-to push through a tangle of ways to make sense of the world. Martha Ronk's poetic language is that of the everyday slightly skewed, as if pieces of an ordinary sentence were missing. Ronk's poems use the repetitive and the banal to explore ways in which language is intertwined with thought and experience. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910957175303321 |
|
|
Autore |
Gerber Hans U |
|
|
Titolo |
Life Insurance Mathematics / / by Hans U. Gerber |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[2nd ed. 1995.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (XV, 220 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Statistics |
Econometrics |
Finance |
Quantitative Economics |
Financial Economics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
1 The Mathematics of Compound Interest -- 2 The Future Lifetime of a Life Aged x -- 3 Life Insurance -- 4 Life Annuities -- 5 Net Premiums -- 6 Net Premium Reserves -- 7 Multiple Decrements -- 8 Multiple Life Insurance -- 9 The Total Claim Amount in a Portfolio -- 10 Expense Loadings -- 11 Estimating Probabilities of Death -- Appendix A. Commutation Functions -- A.1 Introduction -- A.2 The Deterministic Model -- A.3 Life Annuities -- A.4 Life Insurance -- A.5 Net Annual Premiums and Premium Reserves -- Appendix B. Simple Interest -- Appendix C. Exercises -- C.0 Introduction -- C.1 Mathematics of Compound Interest: Exercises -- C.1.1 Theory Exercises -- C.1.2 Spreadsheet Exercises -- C.2.1 Theory Exercises -- C.2.2 Spreadsheet Exercises -- C.3 Life Insurance -- C.3.1 Theory Exercises -- C.3.2 Spreadsheet Exercises -- C.4 Life Annuities -- C.4.1 Theory Exercises -- C.4.2 Spreadsheet Exercises -- C.5 Net Premiums -- C.5.1 Notes -- C.5.2 Theory Exercises -- C.5.3 Spreadsheet Exercises -- C.6 Net Premium Reserves -- C.6.1 Theory Exercises -- C.6.2 Spreadsheet Exercises -- C.7 Multiple Decrements: Exercises -- C.7.1 Theory Exercises -- C.8 Multiple Life Insurance: Exercises -- C.8.1 Theory Exercises -- C.8.2 Spreadsheet Exercises -- C.9 The Total Claim |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amount in a Portfolio -- C.9.1 Theory Exercises -- C.10 Expense Loadings -- C.10.1 Theory Exercises -- C.10.2 Spreadsheet Exercises -- C.11 Estimating Probabilities of Death -- C.11.1 Theory Exercises -- Appendix D. Solutions -- D.0 Introduction -- D.1 Mathematics of Compound Interest -- D.1.1 Solutions to Theory Exercises -- D.1.2 Solutions to Spreadsheet Exercises -- D.2.1 Solutions to Theory Exercise -- D.2.2 Solutions to Spreadsheet Exercises -- D.3 Life Insurance -- D.3.1 Solutions to Theory Exercises -- D.3.2 Solution to Spreadsheet Exercises -- D.4 Life Annuities -- D.4.1 Solutions to Theory Exercises -- D.4.2 Solutions to Spreadsheet Exercises -- D.5 Net Premiums. Solutions -- D.5.1 Theory Exercises -- D.5.2 Solutions to Spreadsheet Exercises -- D.6 Net Premium Reserves: Solutions -- D.6.1 Theory Exercises -- D.6.2 Solutions to Spreadsheet Exercises -- D.7 Multiple Decrements: Solutions -- D.7.1 Theory Exercises -- D.8 Multiple Life Insurance: Solutions -- D.8.1 Theory Exercises -- D.8.2 Solutions to Spreadsheet Exercises -- D.9 The Total Claim Amount in a Portfolio -- D.9.1 Theory Exercises -- D.10 Expense Loadings -- D.10.1 Theory Exercises -- D.10.2 Spreadsheet Exercises -- D.11 Estimating Probabilities of Death -- D.11.1 Theory Exercises -- Appendix E. Tables -- E.0 Illustrative Life Tables -- E.1 Commutation Columns -- E.2 Multiple Decrement Tables -- References. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
This concise introduction to life contingencies, the theory behind the actuarial work around life insurance and pension funds, will appeal to the reader who likes applied mathematics. In addition to the model of life contingencies, the theory of compound interest is explained and it is shown how mortality and other rates can be estimated from observations. The probabilistic model is used consistently throughout the book. For this second, expanded edition numerous exercises (with answers and solutions) were added. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |