Andreas Kyprianou tells Kevin Olding and Dan Georgescu how maths is helping humanity face down some of its biggest challenges – from COVID-19 to global air pollution
Last month marked a year since the World Health Organisation officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, which has so far led to more than 2.7 million deaths across the world.
This issue of The Actuary has a strong environmental focus and challenges readers to consider how actuaries can help address the biggest challenge of all: the overheating of our planet due to human activity, and the consequent costs to humanity.
This month’s magazine continues our campaign to showcase the expertise and influence that actuaries have had, and continue to have, beyond the profession.
Correlation matrices arise in many applications to model the dependence between variables. Dan Georgescu and Nick Higham ask what happens when we have a partially specified matrix and we wish to fill in the missing elements
Former Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King talks to Dan Georgescu about over-reliance on black box models, and the impossibility of quantifying all risks
