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    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....
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  • 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...
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    Gompertz–Makeham law states that the human death rate is the sum of an age-dependent component (the Gompertz function, named after Benjamin Gompertz)...
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    and statistics, the Gompertz distribution is a continuous probability distribution, named after Benjamin Gompertz. The Gompertz distribution is often...
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  • 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 −...
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    scholar and physician Benjamin Gompertz (1779–1865), British actuary, and mathematician Gompertz function, named for Benjamin Gompertz Don Gumpertz, sailor...
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    brother of the mathematician and actuary Benjamin Gompertz, and the poet Isaac Gompertz. Being Jewish, Gompertz and his siblings were barred from attending...
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  • 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...
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  • rights activist Lewis Gompertz and the mathematician and actuary Benjamin Gompertz. He later composed epitaphs for his brother Barent and for Lewis'...
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    Later, more sophisticated and realistic models were presented by Benjamin Gompertz and Verhulst.[citation needed] In 1855, a Belgian scholar Achille...
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