Paper, 'A sketch of an analysis and notation applicable to the estimation of the value of life contingencies' by Benjamin Gompertz
Reference number: PT/14/22
Date: 1820
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Subject: Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A sketch of an analysis and notation applicable to the estimation of the value of life contingencies'.
Read 29 June 1820.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
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- PT/14/22
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- 1820
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 46 pages
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- Manuscript
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