I taught Population for years and Malthus was in my syllabus. He earned honors in Mathematics at Cambridge. But, of course he could not foresee the future (who can?) and what Massive urbanization would do to fertility. I showed my students how he developed the equation for exponential growth: P=ae to the power of in. Unfortunately my com…
I taught Population for years and Malthus was in my syllabus. He earned honors in Mathematics at Cambridge. But, of course he could not foresee the future (who can?) and what Massive urbanization would do to fertility. I showed my students how he developed the equation for exponential growth: P=ae to the power of in. Unfortunately my computer does not allow me to correctly write out the equation. You can find it in most elementary college Algebra textbooks.
Malthus had another serious theoretical problem: he was a clergyman in the Church of England, and so he misunderstood the true checks on population. He had a childish (by our standards) view of "homosexuality," "beastiality" and many other long forgotten, discarded topics of interest only to Fanatical Christians. But he was brilliant nevertheless. He was an acknowledged inspiration to Darwin a generation later.
I taught Population for years and Malthus was in my syllabus. He earned honors in Mathematics at Cambridge. But, of course he could not foresee the future (who can?) and what Massive urbanization would do to fertility. I showed my students how he developed the equation for exponential growth: P=ae to the power of in. Unfortunately my computer does not allow me to correctly write out the equation. You can find it in most elementary college Algebra textbooks.
Malthus had another serious theoretical problem: he was a clergyman in the Church of England, and so he misunderstood the true checks on population. He had a childish (by our standards) view of "homosexuality," "beastiality" and many other long forgotten, discarded topics of interest only to Fanatical Christians. But he was brilliant nevertheless. He was an acknowledged inspiration to Darwin a generation later.