Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Random variables and probability distributions; 1.1 Particle descriptions of partial differential equations; 1.2 Random variables and stochastic processes; 1.3 The n-point probability distributions; 1.4 Simple averages and scaling; 1.5 Pair correlations...

1 Vectors and Vector Spaces -- 2 Matrix Algebra -- 3 Linear Systems of Equations and Generalized Inverses of Matrices -- 4 Vectorization of Matrices and Matrix Functions: Matrix Differentiation -- 5 Systems of Difference Equations with Constant Coefficients -- References.

The interaction between mathematicians and statisticians reveals to be an effective approach to the analysis of insurance and financial problems, in particular in an operative perspective. The Maf2006 conference, held at the University of Salerno in 2006, had precisely this purpose and the...