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A Formula for expressing the Decrement of Human Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Thomas Young
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The investigation of the laws by which the general mortality of the human species appears to be governed is of equal importance to the statesman, the physician, the natural philosopher, and the mathematician; and as you have had occasion to pay particular attention to the subject, I trust that it will not be disagreeable to you to receive the results of an inquiry, into which I have entered, for the purpose of appreciating, if not of reconciling, the many discordant opinions that have been advanced respecting the comparative mortality of mankind, at different times and under different circumstances.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 6 , Issue 6 , January 1857 , pp. 351 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1855

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References

page 351 note * The writer is addressing Sir Edward Hyde East, Bart., M.P., F.R.S.