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This page is a summary of: Deciphering death: a commentary on Gompertz (1825) 'On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2015, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0379.
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