Pierre-François Verhulst (1804-1849) was a Belgian mathematician who specialized in number theory. In 1838, he introduced the logistic equation, a kind of generalization of the equation for exponential growth but with a maximum value for the population. His work was rediscovered in the 1920s.

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Pierre-François Verhulst, Mathematician

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