<p>Excerpt from The Mathematical Theory of Probabilities and Its Application to Frequency Curves and Statistical Methods, Vol. 1Probability has long ago ceased to be a mere theory of games of chance and is everywhere, especially on the continent, regarded as one of the most important branches of applied mathematics. This is proven by the increasing number of standard text-books in French, German, Italian, Scandinavian and Russian which have appeared during the last ten years. During this time the research work in the theory of probabilities has received a new impetus through the labors of the English biometricians under the leader ship of Pearson, the Scandinavian statisticians Westergaard, Charlier and Kiwr, the German statistical school under Lexis, and the brilliant investigations of the Russian school of statisticians.Each group of these investigations seems, however, to have moved along its own particular lines. The English schools have mostly limited their investigations to the field of biology as pub lished in the extensive memoirs in the highly specialized journal, Biometrika. The Scandinavian scholars have produced researches of a more general character, but most of these researches are un fortunately contained in Scandinavian scientific journals and are for this reason out of reach to the great majority of readers who are not familiar with any of the allied Scandinavian languages. This applies in a still greater degree to the Russians. German scholars of the Lexis school have also contributed important memoirs, but strangely enough their researches are little known in this country or.in England, a fact which is emphasized through the belated English discussion on the theory of dispersion as devel oped by Lexis and his disciples. The same can also be said with regard to the Italian statisticians.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.</p>

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Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Frequency Curves and Their ApplicationThe fact that actuarial science is fundamentally a branch of biology rather than of mathematics is overlooked far more generally than ought to be the case. Most people, even those of education and wide culture, are inclined to look upon an actuary as a particularly crabbed, narrow, and intellectually dusty kind of mathematician. In reality his subject is one of the liveliest in the whole domain of biology, and none surpasses it in its practical interest and importance to mankind. Because, what the actuary is, or at least should be, trying always to formulate more and more definitely are the laws which determine the duration of human life. Why the actuary in fact is too often intellectually but little more than a sort of glorified computer, is really only the result of a defect in the teaching of biology in our colleges and universities. It has only lately come to be recognized anywhere that a biologist needed a substantial foundation in mathematics in order successfully to practice a biological profession. It is not too rash a prediction to say that presently the time is coming when no important actuarial post will be held by a mathematician who knows little or no biology. The vigor and originality of his biological outlook will be valued as highly as the rigidity of his mathematical substructure now is.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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