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1. Lotka, Alfred James (1880–1949)

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   Keyfitz, N.

   International Encyclopedia Of Social & Behavioral Sciences, pp. 9089 - 9091.

   When A. J. Lotka died in 1949 his obituary in the Journal of the American Statistical Association began ‘A brilliant chapter in modern demography came to a close with the death of Alfred James Lotk... Read more

   When A. J. Lotka died in 1949 his obituary in the Journal of the American Statistical Association began ‘A brilliant chapter in modern demography came to a close with the death of Alfred James Lotka.’ David Smith calls him ‘the father of mathematical demography.’ And these were understatements of his contribution, for demography was only a part of Lotka's scientific interests—he was also described as chemist, physicist, biologist, and actuary. What is common in all that he wrote was a search for better understanding through the use of mathematics. His name often appears in the literature as the author of the renewal equation—a mathematical expression of the mechanism by which the generations succeed one another—and as the codiscoverer of the Lotka–Volterra equations for predation and other interactions of multiple species in population biology. Of Lotka's many publications the two best known are the Théorie analytique des associations biologiques(1939) (translated by David Smith as Analytical Theory of Biological Populations) that provides the basis of modern mathematical demography, and Elements of Physical Biology (1925) that looks at the whole of the living world from a physico-chemical perspective. Read less

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2. Lotka, Alfred James (1880–1949)

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   Cohen, Joel E.

   The New Palgrave Dictionary Of Economics, pp. 8031 - 8034.

   Alfred James Lotka was a many-sided scientist who pioneered the mathematical theory of population. He created the demographic theory of stable populations as a special case of a general theory of r... Read more

   Alfred James Lotka was a many-sided scientist who pioneered the mathematical theory of population. He created the demographic theory of stable populations as a special case of a general theory of renewal. He developed and applied to contemporary demographic data the important concepts of net rate of reproduction and intrinsic rate of natural increase. He created and analysed mathematical models of predation and competition that remain influential in theoretical ecology and proposed a comprehensive physico-chemical view of evolution. He also evaluated the expected value of lifetime earnings of workers of specified ages, analysed mathematical models for the epidemiology of malaria, and calculated rank-size distributions of scientific productivity. Read less

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3. Alfred James Lotka, 1880-1949 1950

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   Dublin, Louis I.

   Journal Of The American Statistical Association, Vol. 45, Issue 249, pp. 138 - 139.

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