Albert Quiquet (1862 – 22 August 1934) was a French actuary and statistician,
perhaps best known for his role in transcribing and editing the lectures given by
Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré ( S: stress final syllable ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The ...
and published under the title ''Calcul des probabilités''.
Quiquet graduated from the
École Normale Supérieure
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
in 1883. 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
The Institute of Actuaries (french: Institut des Actuaires) is the association of actuaries in France. The Institute was created in 2001 by a merger of the Institute of Actuaries of France and the French Federation of Actuaries. The Institute is a ...
in 1893.
[
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 The International Congress of Actuaries (ICA) is a conference held under the auspices of the International Actuarial Association every four years. The most recent conference was the 31st Congress, held in Berlin, Germany from 4 to 8 June 2018. The ...
and in the subsequent congresses.[
Quiquet was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome, in 1912 at Cambridge UK,]
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1862 births
1934 deaths
French actuaries
École Normale Supérieure alumni