Benjamin Gompertz was an English 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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William Gemmell CochranAlso won Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Albert ShiryaevAlso won Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
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Benjamin Gompertz was an English 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. He was the brother of the early animal rights activist and inventor Lewis Gompertz and the poet Isaac Gompertz.
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Lived 1779 to 1865 · aged 86
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