MATH 178A

Foundations of Actuarial Mathematics: Life Insurance and Annuities

Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Introduction to mathematics associated with long-term insurance coverages. Single- and multiple-life survival models, annuities, premium calculations and policy values, reserves, pension plans and retirement benefits.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 32B, 170A or 170E (or Statistics 100A), 175 or 177.

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MATH 178A

MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it

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