Unpublished paper, 'On a new method of calculating the value of life-annuities' by Francis Baily
Reference number: AP/8/3
Date: 14 May 1812
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Baily writes about the challenges of calculating tables for determining the value of life annuities in cases involving two or more lives, and presents his new method of calculation. Includes several fold-out tables for use in annuity calculations at the end of the paper.
Subject: Mathematics / Economics
Written by Baily at Gray's Inn [London].
- Reference number
- AP/8/3
- Earliest possible date
- 14 May 1812
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 28 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Francis Baily, Unpublished paper, 'On a new method of calculating the value of life-annuities' by Francis Baily, 14 May 1812, AP/8/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_8_3/unpublished-paper-on-a-new-method-of-calculating-the-value-of-life-annuities-by-francis-baily, accessed on 20 January 2025
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