Benjamin Gompertz, a British mathematician, put forth an 1825 proposal that introduced the concept of an "upper limit" to age. However, as time goes on, and scientific advances allow people to ...

Gompertz’s Law of Mortality The genesis of our approach finds resonance in the work of Benjamin Gompertz, a self-taught mathematician whose career trajectory took him from the London Stock Exchange to ...

“Two seconds is how long it takes in a merger for a black hole to form and eat up everything in its environment, so it’s very strange that this lasted a whole minute,” says Benjamin Gompertz ...