Three Styles of Growth Early models of population growth represented the number of people as an exponential function of time, $latex \displaystyle N(t) = N_0 \exp(t/\tau) &fg=000000$ where $latex {\tau}&fg=000000$ is the e-folding time. For every period of length $latex {\tau}&fg=000000$, the population increases by a factor $latex {e\approx 2.7}&fg=000000$. Exponential growth was assumed by … Continue reading A Simple Growth Function →