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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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 −...

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

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