What Relates Honoré de Balzac and 30 Young Geneva Girls with Life Annuities and Life Tables?

Ralf Korn () and Bernd Luderer ()
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Ralf Korn: TU Kaiserslautern
Bernd Luderer: TU Chemnitz

Chapter 63 in Money and Mathematics, 2021, pp 261-265 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Sometimes one can find interesting financial mathematical problems in the literature. The great French novelist Balzac, for example, had an excellent knowledge of bills of exchange or life annuities, while finance ministers and bankers at that time were very creative in generating money.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-34677-5_63

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