The aim of this book is to bring some of the standard stochastic models
of non-life insurance mathematics to the attention of a wide audience which,
hopefully, will include actuaries and also other applied scientists. The primary
objective of this book is to provide the undergraduate actuarial student with
an introduction to non-life insurance mathematics. I used parts of this text in
the course on basic non-life insurance for 3rd year mathematics students at the
Laboratory of Actuarial Mathematics of the University of Copenhagen. But
I am convinced that the content of this book will also be of interest to others
who have a background on probability theory and stochastic processes and would like to learn about applied stochastic processes. Insurance mathematics
is a part of applied probability theory. Moreover, its mathematical tools are
also used in other applied areas (usually under different names).