Actuarial science and financial mathematics canterbury. Actuarial science and financial mathematics did you know. Lecture notes 01 in the first lecture we started to learn about credit cards. In financial mathematics, two types of interest calculation.
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Tim johnson is an rcuk academic fellow in financial mathematics, based at heriotwatt university and the maxwell institute for mathematical sciences in edinburgh. The remainder forms the basis of math2510 financial mathematics ii. Notes to the consolidated financial statements in millions, except pershare data and where otherwise noted xerox 2011 annual report 61 new accounting standards and accounting changes. We repeat, for discrete random variables, the value pk represents the probability that the event x k occurs.
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