Albert Quiquet (1862 – 22 August 1934) was a French actuary and statistician,[1] perhaps best known for his role in transcribing and editing the lectures given by Henri Poincaré and published under the title Calcul des probabilités.[2][3]
Quiquet graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in 1883.[4] He became in 1886 an actuary at one of the largest French insurance companies, La Nationale Compagnie d'Assurances sur la vie, and later became the chief actuary there, a position he held for nearly 30 years. He became a full member of the Institute of Actuaries of France in 1893.[1]
He published many papers in the journal of the Institute of Actuaries of France and in several other statistical and mathematical journals. He participated in 1895 in the first International Congress of Actuaries and in the subsequent congresses.[1]
Quiquet was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome,[5] in 1912 at Cambridge UK,[6] and in 1928 at Bologna.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Albert Quiquet (obituary)" (PDF). Journal of the Institute of Actuaries. 65 (3): 350. November 1934. doi:10.1017/S0020268100033849.
- ^ Calcul des probabilités. Leçons professées pendant le deuxième semestre 1893–1894 par H. Poincaré, rédigées par A. Quiquet. Cours de physique mathématique. Paris: Georges Carré. 1896.
- ^ Mazliak, Laurent. "Poincaré’s odds." In Henri Poincaré, 1912–2012, pp. 151–192. Springer Basel, 2015. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-0834-7_3
- ^ The Oxford Handbook of Generality in Mathematics and the Sciences. Oxford University Press. 2016. p. 205. ISBN 9780191086755.
- ^ Quiquet, A. "Sur une nouvelle application des jacobiens aux probabilités viagères". Atti del IV Congresso internazionale dei matematici (Roma, 6–11 Aprile 1908). Vol. 3. pp. 219–227.
- ^ Quiquet, A. "Sur une méthode d'interpolation exposée par Henri Poincaré, et sur une application possible aux fonctions de survie d'ordre n ". In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians (Cambridge, 22–28 August 1912). Vol. 2. pp. 385–388.
External links
edit- Quiquet, A. "Lexiques internationaux d'Actuariat". In: Transactions of the Second International Actuarial Congress, held in London, May 16 to 20, 1898. pp. 641–642.