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Pierre-François Verhulst and the logistic law of population. (Pierre-François Verhulst et la logistique de la population.) (French. English summary) Zbl 1127.01314

Summary: With the progress made by demographic analysis, the first attempts to formalize the dynamics of populations seem to have lost much of their theoretical and practical interests. But, if researches favouring the global approach – through which Quetelet and his disciple Verhulst became famous in the 1830th, then Pearl and Reed in the 1920th – have become obsolete, as far as prediction of human populations growth is concerned, they nevertheless represent a very significant landmark in the history of the “mathematisation” of the social sciences.

MSC:

01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
91-03 History of game theory, economics, and finance
92-03 History of biology
91D20 Mathematical geography and demography
92D25 Population dynamics (general)
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