A short history of mathematical population dynamics
<p>As Eugene Wigner stressed, mathematics has proven unreasonably effective in the physical sciences and their technological applications. The role of mathematics in the biological, medical and social sciences has been much more modest but has recently grown thanks to the simulation capacity o...
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • A short history of mathematical population dynamics, Nicolas Bacaër, London, Springer, 2011, 1 vol. (X-160 p.), 978-0-85729-114-1 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Fibonacci sequence (1202) Halley s life table (1693) Euler and the geometric growth of populations (1748 1761) Daniel Bernoulli, d Alembert and the inoculation of smallpox (1760) Malthus and the obstacles to geometric growth (1798) Verhulst and the logistic equation (1838) Bienaymé, Cournot and the extinction of family names (1845 1847) Mendel and heredity (1865) Galton, Watson and the extinction problem (1873 1875) Lotka and stable population theory (1907 1911) The Hardy Weinberg law (1908) Ross and malaria (1911) Lotka, Volterra and the predator prey system (1920 1926) Fisher and natural selection (1922) Yule and evolution (1924) McKendrick and Kermack on epidemic modelling (1926 1927) Haldane and mutations (1927) Erlang and Steffensen on the extinction problem (1929 1933) Wright and random genetic drift (1931) The diffusion of genes (1937) 21 The Leslie matrix (1945) 22 Percolation and epidemics (1957) 23 Game theory and evolution (1973) 24 Chaotic populations (1974) 25 China s one-child policy (1980) 26 Some contemporary problems