An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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VERHULST, Pierre François

2 entries
  • 145.57

Notice sur la loi que la population suit dans son accroissement.

Corresp. Math. et Phys., 10, 113-21., 1838.

Verhulst constructed the simplest mathematical model of a continously growing population with an upper limit to its size.



Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics
  • 145.58

Recherches mathématiques sur la loi d’accroissement de la population.

Mem. Acad. Roy. Belg., 18, 1-38., 1845.

In his second paper on population growth Verhulst introduced the term, logistic. He modified his equation so its early part is exponential and becomes logistic only after a definite length of time. Verhulst published a second paper on this subject: Deuxième mémoire sur la loi d’accroissement de la population. Mem. Acad. Roy. Belg., 1847, 20, 1-32.



Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics