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On the Calculus of Finite Differences, and its Application to Problems in the Doctrine of Compound Interest and Certain Annuities (Continued from p. 340, vol. vii.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

William Curtis Otter
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The idea of periodic or discontinuous functions was primitively introduced by Euler, and has since been the subject of extended investigation by M. Fourier, who has made some new and important applications of it in. his mathematical theory of heat.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , October 1858 , pp. 19 - 24
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1860

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