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Alfred J. Lotka
Alfred James Lotka was a Polish-American mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. A biophysicist, Lotka is best known for his proposal of the predator–prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra. The Lotka–Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in e…
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science · American mathematician (1880–1949) · mathematician · statistician · biophysicist · physicist · chemist · also Alfred J. Lotka, Alfred James Lotka, Lotka
Born 2 March 1880 · Died 5 December 1949 · Q470674
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1998· 1 entry
As Analytical Theory of Biological Populations
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1949· 1 entry
Died 1949-12-05.
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1940).
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1925· 1 entry
One of the first books on mathematical biology after D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form
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1923· 1 entry
Published a thorough five-part analysis and extension of both Ross's malaria models
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1912· 2 entries
Proposed a solution to Ronald Ross's second malaria model
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Studied at University of Birmingham, Doctor of Science (1912).
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1909· 1 entry
Studied at Cornell University, Master of Arts (1909).
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1907· 1 entry
With the publication of articles in the journal Science and American Journal of Science
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1901· 1 entry
At the University of Birmingham, England, he did graduate work in 1901–02 at Leipzig University, received an M
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1880· 1 entry
Born 1880-03-02.
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