Pierre François Verhulst

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Pierre François Verhulst (October 28, 1804 - February 15, 1849, Brussels, Belgium) was a mathematician and a doctor in number theory from the University of Ghent in 1825. Verhulst published in 1838 the logistic demographic model:

[N'(t) = r N(t) \left(1 - \frac \right)]

when [N(t)] represents number of individuals at time t, r the intrinsic growth rate and K number of individuals in equilibrium.

See also

• Population dynamics
• Logistic map
• Logistic function
• Logistic distribution

References

Verhulst, P. F., (1838). 'Notice sur la loi que la population pursuit dans son accroissement. Correspondance mathématique et physique 10:113-121.

Verhulst, P. F., Recherches Mathematiques sur La Loi D'Accroissement de la Population, Nouveaux Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, 18, Art. 1, 1-45, 1845 (Mathematical Researches into the Law of Population Growth Increase)

External links

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

 

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