Charles Darwin proposed this idea. He borrows from the work of the political economist Robert Malthus, who had a similar argument in his Principles of Population.
I found a website that gave me a very informative, easy-to-read summary of it all.
http://bertie.ccsu.edu/~dsb/naturesci/Evolution/Unit12OriginSpecies/DarwinOrigin.html
**It's actually Thomas Malthus that wrote Principles of Population and he is the one who directly states this idea first
Malthus
When the sides of a regular polygon increases its interior angles also increases
Perimeter is proportional to the linear dimensions, so it increases by 3x .Area is proportional to (linear dimensions)2, so it increases by 9x .
The width of the rectangle will decrease as the length increases .
If a function Y is dependent on X. if X increases in value then Y also increases then we call this a positive relationship. If X increases in value then Y decreases or vice versa then we call this a negative relationship.
Malthus
Arithmetic- the number increases by 10 every term.
refers to the situation where a population increases by a constant number of persons (or other objects) in each period being analysed.
An arithmetic spiral is a spiral which increases in distance from its point of origin at a constant rate.
In a given sequence, there are two possible means calculatable: Arithmetic Mean, and Geometric Mean. The arithmetic mean, as we all know, is calculated from the sum of all the numbers divided by how many numbers there are: Sumn/n. The Geometric sum is calculated by multiplying all the numbers within the sequence together and taking the nth root of this value: (Productn)(1/n).In a geometric series, N(i)= a(ri), the geometric mean is found to be a(rn-1), where n is the number of elements within the series. this decreases or increases exponentially depending on the r value. If r1, increasing.Limitation Of Geometric Mean are:-1) Geometric mean cannot be computed when there are both negative and positive values in a series or more observations are having zero value.2)Compared to Arithmetic Mean this average is more difficult to compute and interpret.-Iwin
Population will always grow faster than the food supply, leading to periods of overpopulation, war, and famine. At that time population of England was increasing rapidly.Thomas Robert Malthus wrote in his 1798 book Essay on Principle of Population "by nature, human foods increases in a slow arithmatical ratio but man himself increases in a quick geometrical ratio unless want and vice stopped him." Human population is supposed to double in every 25 years.Food is necessary to the life of man.Human population increases in geometrical progression like 2,4,8,16 but food production increases in arithmatical progression like 2,4,6,8.Population always increases when the means of subsistence increases prevented by powerful and obvious checks. In other words size of population is determine by the availability of food.
It appears to have been Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) in 1896, a Swedish scientist who developed what is now know as the 'greenhouse gas law':"if the quantity of carbonic acid increases in geometric progression, the augmentation of the temperature will increase nearly in arithmetic progression"
A circle :D
"The advantage is that the mean takes every value into account. A disadvantage is that it can be affected by extreme values. " The mean or more properly the "arithmetic mean" of a sample will eventually approximate the mean of the distribution of the population as the sample size increases. If the population distribution is skewed (not symmetrical), the mode and median will not provide an estimate of the mean, even as the sample size becomes large.
Exponential
The state's population increases.
The population increases too.