Benjamin Gompertz was an English self-educated mathematician and actuary, born in London on 5 March 1779 to a Dutch Jewish family, and later a Fellow of the Royal Society. Because he was Jewish he was denied admission to universities. He applied the calculus to actuarial questions and is best remembered for Gompertz's Law of Mortality, a demographic model published in 1825 which shows that the mortality rate increases in a geometric progression. He was a founder member of the Royal Statistical Society in 1834, and was the brother of the animal rights activist and inventor Lewis Gompertz and of the poet Isaac Gompertz. He died in London on 14 July 1865.
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was an English self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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He was one of three sons born in England to a Dutch family which, although from Holland, was Jewish.
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Gompertz, in 1825, showed that the mortality rate increases in a geometric progression
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