Benjamin Gompertz was a British self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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10 Facts About Benjamin Gompertz
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Benjamin Gompertz is best known for his Benjamin Gompertz law of mortality, a demographic model published in 1825.
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Benjamin Gompertz was the brother of the early animal rights activist and inventor Lewis Gompertz and the poet Isaac Gompertz.
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German Jewish family of Benjamin Gompertz of Emmerich, he was born in London, where his father and grandfather had been successful diamond merchants.
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Benjamin Gompertz married Abigail Montefiore in 1810; they had three children.
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Benjamin Gompertz became a member of the Mathematical Society of Spitalfields, and served as its president when it was merged with the Astronomical Society of London.
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Benjamin Gompertz was a member of many learned societies, and was one of the promoters of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
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Benjamin Gompertz was an old-fashioned Newtonian who retained and defended the notation of fluxions.
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Benjamin Gompertz worked out a new series of tables of mortality for the Royal Society, and these suggested to him in 1825 his law of human mortality, which he first expounded in a letter to Francis Baily.
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The equation, known as a Benjamin Gompertz curve, is used in many areas to model a time series where growth is slowest at the start and end of a period.
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