Benjamin Gompertz

"Benjamin Gompertz (5 March 1779 – 14 July 1865) was a British self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Gompertz is now best known for his Gompertz law of mortality, a demographic model published in 1825."

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Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gompertz

http://www.thepeerage.com/p35637.htm#i356366

Benjamin Gompertz and his work are cited in an article that appeared in The Guardian on Nov. 30, 2019. The article is entitled, "'People are caught up in magical thinking': was the oldest woman in the world a fraud?" It includes a link to an article about the Gompertz function as described in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/30/oldest-woman-in-the...