The Doctrine of Chances; Or a Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play

• The introduction
• Solutions of several sorts of problems, deduced from the rules laid down in the introduction

A treatise of annuities on lives

• Part I. Containing the rules and examples
• Part II. Containing the demonstrations of some of the principal propositions in the foregoing treatise
• Explaining the rules of combined lives
• Containing the demonstration of the rules given in problems 4th and 5th, for determining the value of longest life
• Containing the demonstration of what has been said concerning reversions, and the value of one life after one or more lives
• Containing the demonstration of what has been asserted in the solution of the 10th and 29th problems
• Containing the demonstration of what has been said concerning successive lives in the solution of prob. XIII
• Containing the demonstration of what has been asserted in the 32d and 33d problems concerning half yearly payments
• As also the investigation of some theorems relating to that subject
• Containing the demonstration of what has been said concerning the probabilities of survivorship
• Serving to render the solutions in this treatise more general, and more correct
• Appendix
• Abraham de Moivre by Helen M. Walker