In the 1870s and 1880s, the scientist, logician, and pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce possessed an advanced knowledge of mathematical economics, having mastered and criticized Cournot as early as 1871. In 1884 he engaged in a multi-round debate with the editors of The Nation over the...

Preface -- Classical risk model -- Renewal risk model -- Ruin probability estimation -- Extreme value theory -- Regular variation -- Ruin under subexponentiality -- Random sums -- The single big jump -- Ruin under constant interest force -- Absolute ruin -- Discrete dependence model -- Ruin...

Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists' engagements with other disciplines - e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

Schummelseite -- Titel -- Impressum -- Über den Autor -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einleitung -- Teil I: Auf die Plätze … Einfache Algebra -- Kapitel 1: Am Anfang stand die Algebra -- Mit Vorzeichen rechnen -- Algebraische Eigenschaften - eine Skizze -- Was Sie über Brüche wissen sollten --...