William Makeham

William Matthews Makeham (1826–1891) was an English actuary and mathematician.

Makeham was responsible for proposing the age-independent Makeham term in the Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality that, together with the exponentially age-dependent Gompertz term, was one of the most effective theories to describe human mortality.

Makeham was responsible for two important studies on human mortality:

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