Benjamin Gompertz FRS (5 March 1779 – 14 July 1865) was an English self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society....

The Gompertz curve or Gompertz function is a type of mathematical model for a time series, named after Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865). It is a sigmoid function...

Gompertz–Makeham law states that the human death rate is the sum of an age-dependent component (the Gompertz function, named after Benjamin Gompertz)...

and statistics, the Gompertz distribution is a continuous probability distribution, named after Benjamin Gompertz. The Gompertz distribution is often...

scholar and physician Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), British actuary, and mathematician Gompertz function, named for Benjamin Gompertz Don Gumpertz, sailor...

brother of the mathematician and actuary Benjamin Gompertz, and the poet Isaac Gompertz. Being Jewish, Gompertz and his siblings were barred from attending...

evaluations and as a value of special functions. It is named after Benjamin Gompertz. It can be defined by the continued fraction δ = 1 2 − 1 4 − 4 6 −...

personal finance correspondent for BBC News. He is a relation of Benjamin, Isaac and Lewis Gompertz. He was born in Tenterden, Kent, and attended Dulwich Preparatory...

rights activist Lewis Gompertz and the mathematician and actuary Benjamin Gompertz. He later composed epitaphs for his brother Barent and for Lewis'...

Later, more sophisticated and realistic models were presented by Benjamin Gompertz and Verhulst.[citation needed] In 1855, a Belgian scholar Achille...

predictive theories, such as the demographic studies such as the work of Benjamin Gompertz and Pierre François Verhulst in the early 19th century, who refined...

his most notable work as an actuary is his promotion of the work of Benjamin Gompertz, whose "law of mortality" was both under-appreciated and plagiarized...

predictive theories, such as the demographic studies such as the work of Benjamin Gompertz and Pierre François Verhulst in the early 19th century, who refined...

n = 5. André-Marie Ampère discovers Stokes' theorem. Benjamin Gompertz formulates the Gompertz function. Jean-Baptiste Sarlandière's Mémoires sur L'Électro-Puncture...

so doing he applied the techniques of the English actuary Benjamin Gompertz (the Gompertz curve), and the closely allied statistical "law of mortality"...

To support the embryonic life business, the directors recruited Benjamin Gompertz (married to Montefiore's sister), now best known for his law of mortality...

constructing mortality tables was entrusted to Griffith Davies; along with Benjamin Gompertz, Davies was considered one of the pioneers of life tables. The first...

models by Spiegelman and Benjamin do not mention de Moivre at all (in both cases, the surveys start with the work of Benjamin Gompertz). In his essay on the...

(1932–2007), numerical analysis Marty Golubitsky (born 1945), mathematician Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), mathematician I. J. Good (1916–2009), mathematician and...

Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (d. 1842) 1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865) 1785 – Carlo Odescalchi...

Milne (1776–1851), English Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), English, developed the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality and the Gompertz function John Finlaison...

early period was dominated by demographic studies such as the work of Benjamin Gompertz and Pierre François Verhulst in the early 19th century, who refined...

Dollond, Thomas Simpson, John Crosley, John Tatum, Francis Baily, and Benjamin Gompertz. It merged with the Royal Astronomical Society in 1846. The name lives...

offices with a request for information. The matter was taken up by Benjamin Gompertz in correspondence with Charles Babbage. In the end an external group...

government statistician Sydney Goldstein, expert on fluid mechanics Benjamin Gompertz, mathematician Eugene Grebenik, demographer Steven Haberman, professor...

The Conversation. Retrieved 2022-12-27. Rastinejad, Jillian C.; Gompertz, Benjamin P.; Levan, Andrew J.; Fong, Wen-fai; Nicholl, Matt; Lamb, Gavin P...

the Bank of England. On 16 June 1831, on the recommendation of Mr.Benjamin Gompertz, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. From about 1847 he...

(1777–1855) John Fisher (1748–1825) John Leslie Foster (d. 1842) Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865) Thomas Greatorex (1758–1831) Robert Hamilton (d. 1832)...

Jeffrey Goldstone 1977-03-17 William Gomildon 1663-11-11 - c. 1691 Benjamin Gompertz 1819-01-28 5 March 1779 – 14 July 1865, actuary mathematician John...

September 2012. Balint, Benjamin (April 2013). "A review of Joseph Anton". Claremont Review of Books. Retrieved 17 June 2015. Gompertz, Will (17 September...