VERY CALCULATED: Rick Gorvett, chair of Bryant University’s mathematics department, says the creation of a master’s degree program in actuarial science comes at a time when the need for more actuaries is greater than ever. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
Forget what you might think of people who work as actuaries – overworked number crunchers who toil away in windowless offices, dully calculating risks and premiums for insurance companies. Yes, the field of actuarial science does involve numbers, data, formulas and computer-generated algorithms, but industry leaders say it has rapidly evolved over the last three…
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