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Benjamin GompertzBenjamin Gompertz (March_5. 1779 - July_14, 1865, London, England), self educated mathematician denied admission to universities since he was Jewish. Fellow of the Royal Society from 1819. Gompertz is today mostly known for his Gompertz's law of mortality, a demographic model published in 1825. The model can be written in this way: where represents number of individuals at time t, r the intrinsic growth rate and K number of individuals in equilibrium. See also Population dynamics References Gompertz, B., (1825). On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality, and on a New Mode of Determining the Value of Life Contingencies. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London 123, pp: 513-585. 1825. Gompertz, Benjamin Gompertz, Benjamin Gompertz, Benjamin
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