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A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics

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    Chapter 1 The Fibonacci sequence (1202)
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    Chapter 2 Halley’s life table (1693)
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    Chapter 3 Euler and the geometric growth of populations (1748–1761)
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    Chapter 4 Daniel Bernoulli, d’Alembert and the inoculation of smallpox (1760)
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    Chapter 5 Malthus and the obstacles to geometric growth (1798)
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    Chapter 6 Verhulst and the logistic equation (1838)
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    Chapter 7 Bienaymé, Cournot and the extinction of family names (1845–1847)
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    Chapter 8 Mendel and heredity (1865)
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    Chapter 9 Galton, Watson and the extinction problem (1873–1875)
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    Chapter 10 Lotka and stable population theory (1907–1911)
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    Chapter 11 The Hardy–Weinberg law (1908)
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    Chapter 12 Ross and malaria (1911)
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    Chapter 13 Lotka, Volterra and the predator–prey system (1920–1926)
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    Chapter 14 Fisher and natural selection (1922)
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    Chapter 15 Yule and evolution (1924)
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    Chapter 16 McKendrick and Kermack on epidemic modelling (1926–1927)
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    Chapter 17 Haldane and mutations (1927)
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    Chapter 18 Erlang and Steffensen on the extinction problem (1929–1933)
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    Chapter 19 Wright and random genetic drift (1931)
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    Chapter 20 The diffusion of genes (1937)
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    Chapter 21 The Leslie matrix (1945)
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    Chapter 22 Percolation and epidemics (1957)
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    Chapter 23 Game theory and evolution (1973)
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    Chapter 24 Chaotic populations (1974)
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    Chapter 25 China’s one-child policy (1980)
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    Chapter 26 Some contemporary problems
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Title
A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics
Published by
Springer London, February 2011
DOI 10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8
ISBNs
978-0-85729-114-1, 978-0-85729-115-8
Authors

Bacaër, Nicolas

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Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Ukraine 1 <1%
Vietnam 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 295 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 16%
Student > Master 47 15%
Student > Bachelor 42 13%
Researcher 37 12%
Professor 18 6%
Other 44 14%
Unknown 74 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 52 17%
Mathematics 47 15%
Environmental Science 25 8%
Engineering 21 7%
Social Sciences 11 4%
Other 71 23%
Unknown 85 27%