The contribution is related to the first attempts to develop and apply mathematical tools and statistical data to social sciences. One of their major applications was the field of insurance, and this presentation focuses on public insurance, whose first examples are to be found in German states, in Denmark and in the Netherlands. Euler and Lagrange were both involved in similar insurance problems concerning life annuities, and in particular the projects of widow's pension funds of the principality of Calenberg and the Kingdom of Prussia (1767- 1776).

Euler and Lagrange’s involvement in the insurance policies of the German states

BORGATO, Maria Teresa
2016

Abstract

The contribution is related to the first attempts to develop and apply mathematical tools and statistical data to social sciences. One of their major applications was the field of insurance, and this presentation focuses on public insurance, whose first examples are to be found in German states, in Denmark and in the Netherlands. Euler and Lagrange were both involved in similar insurance problems concerning life annuities, and in particular the projects of widow's pension funds of the principality of Calenberg and the Kingdom of Prussia (1767- 1776).
2016
978-80-270-0501-7
Euler, Lagrange, Widow's Fund, Statistic, Science and Power, Mathematics and social sciences
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