Definition:Euler-Gompertz Constant/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Euler-Gompertz Constant
The Euler-Gompertz constant was associated by Benjamin Gompertz in $1925$ with the rate of survival with respect to age.
Leonhard Paul Euler had previously encountered it during his study of divergent infinite series.
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes demonstrated the equivalence of the integral form and the continued fraction form.
Sources
- 1983: François Le Lionnais and Jean Brette: Les Nombres Remarquables ... (previous) ... (next): $0,59634 7355 \ldots$