Leases for Lives: Life Contingent Contracts and the Emergence of Actuarial Science in Eighteenth-Century England by David R. Bellhouse

Hardback. New. This important work illuminates the early modern roots of two very contemporary concerns, real estate values and pension/annuity funding. It places in historical context the work of an active group of eighteenth-century mathematicians, and gives a resonant example of the vagaries of 'technology transfer' from mathematical sciences to commercial activities.