In today's money markets interest rates are all-important. This book, which is intended as a successor to D.W.A Donald's Compound Interest and Annuities-certain, develops the classical theory of compound interest (in which the force of interest is constant) as a special case of a more general model. There is a concise but thorough treatment of the basic compound interest functions, nominal rate of interest, and the yield (or internal rate of return)...