A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics
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Beschreibung
This book traces the history of population dynamics. It details the problems that scientists face when governments ask them for reliable predictions to help control epidemic, manage renewable resources, or anticipate demographic evolutions such as aging.
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Inhalt
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).- Bienayme, 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.