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Halley’s life table (1693)

  • Bacaër N
Springer London, (2011), 5-10
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_2
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Abstract

In 1693 the famous English astronomer Edmond Halley studied the birth and death records of the city of Breslau, which had been transmitted to the Royal Society by Caspar Neumann. He produced a life table showing the number of people surviving to any age from a cohort...

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Bacaër, N. (2011). Halley’s life table (1693). In A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics (pp. 5–10). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_2

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