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Actuary
* Actuaries analyse and manage the risks of financial contracts.
* Actuaries apply mathematics, probability, and statistics to the fields of insurance and pensions
  - statistics, and economics to put a financial value on future events
* Actuaries are experts in risk management
  - key players on a company's management team
  - office workers
  - professionals who specialize in the assessment of risk
  - respected professionals
  - some of the most powerful nerds in the universe
  - specialists in the assessment of risk
  - statisticians who compute insurance risks and premiums
  - consistently rank among the most desirable jobs in ratings of professions
  - make extensive use of computers, especially in the early stages of their careers
  - pride themselves on their ability to make financial sense of the future
  - routinely make life expectancy projections for large groups of people
  - specialize in either life and health insurance, or in property and casualty insurance
* Actuaries use mathematics and communication and writing skills to work in businesses
  - maths to study the risks in the insurance and financial industries
  - quantitative skills to help others make prudent and intelligent financial decisions
* Actuaries work in a variety of business settings
  - insurance companies and in other settings
  - insurance, pension funds and other investment related businesses
  - primarily for insurance companies and financial institutions
  - with facts, figures and people to solve business problems
* Most actuaries live and work in urban areas where financial firms are located.
* Most actuaries specialize in either life and health insurance, or property and liability insurance
  - life and health insurance or property and casualty
  - work in either pensions or life insurance
+ Actuary, Work: Mathematicians :: Business :: Financial occupations
  * Actuaries now work in many places. Most work for insurance companies, but others work in all kinds of finance companies.
+ Edmond Halley, Demography: English astronomers :: Atheists :: Fellows of the Royal Society :: English mathematicians :: English physicists :: Meteorologists :: Scientists from London
  * This article allowed the British government to sell life annuities at an appropriate price based on the age of the purchaser. Halley's work strongly influenced the development of actuarial science. Actuaries use maths to study the risks in the insurance  and financial industries. The construction of the life-table for Breslau, which followed more primitive work by John Graunt, is now seen as a major event in the history of demography. Demography is the statistical study of human populations.

Apple computer
* are located in buildings
  - personal computers
  - products
  - well known as being easy to set up and operate
* use a four-digit year date.

Computer control
* can also help deter insiders from fraud.
* involves the use of a computer to control events.

Computer imaging
* depends on a whole range of mathematical tools.
* is an enhancement to cosmetic surgery consultation
  - used to target the tumor and direct the radiation beam from several angles

Computer modeling
* cost-effective way to analyze a site.
* has a long tradition of supporting decision making activities.
* is also essential in basic physiological research
  - based on spreadsheet programs and commercial packages
  - no replacement for hands-on, kinesthetic experience with physical models
* is used to predict behavior of neural circuits
  - study how high temperatures and increased emissions are related
  - verify calculations
* time consuming and complex task.

Computer modelling
* can help to determine what kinds of reasoning are most feasible and effective.
* is as close as one can come to reconstruction of the Earth's past
  - used in the whole engineering design process resulting in virtual prototypes