An introduction into Lundberg's theory of risk

In this number of the journal a paper of Dr. Filip Lundberg is published, in which he thoroughly deals with certain problems of the theory of risk. As all the former works of Dr. Lundberg about the theory of risk with only one exception (the paper “Über die Theorie der Rückversicherung” in the transactions of the Congress of Actuaries in Wien 1909) are published in the Swedish language and consequently inaccessible to the international insurance world, a simultaneous report of some of the fundamental ideas in this former production perhaps will offer some interest. Though the latest paper follows a special line, the starting points and the manner of consideration are unaltered, and hence an aquaintance with the simpler problems which here will be dealt with will be rather illustrative.