Benjamin Gompertz
Benjamin Gompertz
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Birth
17791779 Gregorian
1778 Julian
5539 Hebrew London, United Kingdom
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Death
18651865 Gregorian
1864 Julian
5625 Hebrew London, United Kingdom
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Age
86
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ScholarlyScholarly activity -
activity related to the expansion of the limits of knowledge.This type of activity includes following areas:
- science,
- philosophy,
- theology, etc.
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Comments
Was a self educated mathematician, denied admission to university because he was Jewish. Nevertheless he was made Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819. Gompertz is today mostly known for his Gompertz law (of mortality), a demographic model published in 1825.
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Benjamin Gompertz
(17791779 Gregorian
1778 Julian
5539 Hebrew, London - 18651865 Gregorian
1864 Julian
5625 Hebrew, London)
(17271727 Gregorian
1726 Julian
5487 Hebrew - 18081808 Gregorian
1807 Julian
5568 Hebrew, London)
(18111811 Gregorian
1810 Julian
5571 Hebrew - 18831883 Gregorian
1882 Julian
5643 Hebrew)
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