TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bacaër,Nicolas
TI  - A short history of mathematical population dynamics / 
T2  - (Statistics for Biology and Health)
SN  - 9780857291141
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Springer
KW  - Models matemàtics
KW  - Història i crítica
KW  - lemac
KW  - Genètica de poblacions
KW  - Previsió demogràfica
KW  - popin
KW  - DEMOGRAFÍA MATEMÁTICA
KW  - MATHEMATICAL DEMOGRAPHY
KW  - MATEMÁTICAS
KW  - MATHEMATICS
KW  - HISTORIA
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - ESTADÍSTICA
KW  - STATISTICS
KW  - TEORÍA MALTUSIANA
KW  - MALTHUSIAN THEORY
KW  - SELECCIÓN GENÉTICA
KW  - GENETIC SELECTION
KW  - HERENCIA
KW  - INHERITANCE
KW  - EPIDEMIOLOGÍA
KW  - EPIDEMIOLOGY
KW  - APELLIDO
KW  - SURNAME
KW  - DINÁMICA DE POBLACIÓN
KW  - POPULATION DYNAMIC
N1  - Inclou bibliografia i índex
N2  - 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 offered by modern computers. 
This book traces the history of population dynamics---a theoretical subject closely connected to  genetics, ecology, epidemiology and demography---where mathematics has brought significant insights. It presents an overview of the genesis of several important themes: exponential growth, from Euler and Malthus to the Chinese one-child policy; the development of stochastic models, from Mendel's laws and the question of extinction of family names to  percolation theory for the spread of epidemics, and chaotic populations, where determinism and randomness intertwine. 
he reader of this book will see, from a different perspective, the problems that scientists face when  governments ask for reliable predictions to help control epidemics (AIDS, SARS, swine flu), manage renewable resources (fishing quotas, spread of genetically modified organisms) or anticipate demographic evolutions such as aging.
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