MATH 178AFoundations of Actuarial Mathematics: Life Insurance and Annuities
Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 32B, 170A or 170E (or Statistics 100A), 175 or 177.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MATH 178A
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 170AProbability Theory I
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- MATH 170EIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability
- STATS 175Statistics for Spatial Data
5 direct requisites. Showing 20 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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