Mathematical demography : selected papers / David P. Smith, Nathan Keyfitz ; edited by Kenneth W. Wacher and Hervé Le Bras ; cover illustration Harald Wenzel-Orf ; foreword Joshua R. Goldstein, James W. Vaupel ; preface Kenneth W. Wachter, Hervé Le Bras.

Part I. the life table -- 1. Tables of annuity values which were sanctioned by the Roman law for the purposes of the lex falcidia / C. F. Trenerry (1926), 7 -- 2. Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, made upon the bills of mortality / John Graunt (1964-1662), 11 -- 3. An estimate of the degrees of the mortality of mankind / Edmund Halley (1693), 21 -- 4. A treatise on the valuation of annuities and assurances on lives and survivors / John Milne (1815), 27 -- 5. Statical applications of the mortality table / George King, (1902), 35 -- 6. Formal treatnebt if aggregate mortality data / Wilhelm Lexis (1875), 39 -- 7. A short method for constructing an abridged life table / Lowell J. Reed and Margaret Merrerll (1939), 43 -- 8. Short methots of constructing abridged life tables / T.N.E. Greville (1943), 53 -- 9. Life tables for natural populations of animals / Edward S. Deevey, Jr. (1947), 61 -- Part II. Stable population theory -- 10. An illustration of population into the growth / Johan Peter Sussmilch, (1761), 79 -- 11. A general investigation into the mortality and multiplication of the human species / , Leonard Euler (1970-1760), 83 -- 12. Relation between birth rates and death rates / Alfred J. Lotka, (1907), 93 -- 13. A Problem in age-distribution / F. R. Sharpe and Alfred J. Lotka (1911), 101 -- 14. The stability of the normal age distribution / Alfred J. Lotka (1922), 101 -- 15. Resolving a historical confusion in population analysis / Paul A. Samuelson (1976), 109 -- 16. On the integral equation of renewal theory / William Feller (1941), 131 -- 17. A new method for calculating lotka'sr- The intrinisc rate of groth in a stable population / Ansley J. Coale (1957), 157 -- 18. The fundamental theorem of natural selection / R.A. Fisher (1958-1930), 161 -- 19. How the age distribution of a human population is determined / Ansley J. Coale (1957), 167 -- 20. On the reproduction of organism with overlapping generations / W. R. Thompson (1931), 173 -- 21. The population consequences of life history phenomena / Lamont C. Cole (1954), 183 -- Part III. Attempts at prediction and the theory they stimulated -- 22. The probability of a cessation of the growth of population in england and wales during the next century / Edwin Cannan (1895), 197 -- 23. Population waves / Harro Bernardelli (1941), 207 -- 24. ON the use of matrices in certain population mathematics / P.H. Leslie (1945), 213 -- Part IV. Parameterization and curve fitting -- 25. On the nature of the function expresive of the law of human mortality / Benjamin Gompertz (1825), 231 -- 26. On the law of mortality / William M. Makeham (1867), 235 -- 27. Calculation of model tables / Ansley J. Coale and Paul Demeny (1966), 241 -- 28. Methods of analysis amd estimation / William Bras and Ansley J. Coale (1968), 253 -- 29. Nuptiality, fertility, and reproductivity / S. D. Wicksell (1931), 261 -- 30. Model fertility tables: variations in the age structure of childbearing in human population / Ansley J. Coale and T., James Trussell (1974), 269 -- 31. A note on the law of population growth / Pierre-Francois Verhults (1838), 279 -- 32. On the rate of growth of the population of the United States since 1790 and its mathematical representation / Raumond Pearl and Lowell J. Reed (1920), 287 -- Part V. probality models of conception and birth -- 33. Firts investigations on the fecundability of a woman / Corrado Gini (1924), 299 -- 34. Theoretical basis of measures of natural fertility / Louis Henry (1972 (1953)0, 305 -- 35. On the time required for conception / Mindel C. Sheps (1964), 315 -- 36. Bibliography, 325 -- Additional bibliographic references, 331 -- Index, 333.

La demografía matemática es la pieza central de la ciencia social cuantitativa. Las obras fundacionales de este campo de la época romana a finales del siglo XX se recogen aquí, en una nueva edición de una obra clásica de David R. Smith y Nathan Keyfitz. Los comentarios de Smith y Keyfitz han sido actualizados y ampliados por Kenneth Wachter y Hervé Le Bras, dando una imagen sinóptica de los principales logros en estudios formales de población. Esta nueva edición constituye una fuente indispensable para estudiantes y científicos, e ilustra las raíces profundas y la vitalidad continua de la demografía matemática.