Alfred Lotka
Alfred Lotka · Science & Medicine
Mathematical biologist who co-created the Lotka-Volterra equations of population dynamics.
1880, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) — 1949, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
Austria-Hungary · United States
Alfred Lotka is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematical biologist who co-created the Lotka-Volterra equations of population dynamics.
Alfred J. Lotka was a mathematical biologist and statistician who, independently of Vito Volterra, formulated the Lotka–Volterra equations describing predator–prey population dynamics, and he helped found mathematical demography. His ideas remain foundational in ecology and population science. He was of Jewish descent—his father, Jacques Lotka, was a Jewish-born man who worked as a Christian missionary—while his own upbringing was Christian.
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Mathematical biologist who co-created the Lotka-Volterra equations of population dynamics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
