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Paper, 'On the method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the value of a contingent reversion in which three lives are involved in the survivorship' by William Morgan

Reference number: L&P/9/115

Date: 1788

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the value of a contingent reversion in which three lives are involved in the survivorship'

Read 29 January 1789

Reference number
L&P/9/115
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1788
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Ink on paper
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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William Morgan

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William Morgan, Paper, 'On the method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the value of a contingent reversion in which three lives are involved in the survivorship' by William Morgan, 1788, L&P/9/115, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_115/paper-on-the-method-of-determining-from-the-real-probabilities-of-life-the-value-of-a-contingent-reversion-in-which-three-lives-are-involved-in-the-survivorship-by-william-morgan, accessed on 22 January 2025

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