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Vito Volterra

Who

Vito Volterra · Science & Medicine

What

Mathematician who co-created the Lotka-Volterra equations describing predator-prey dynamics.

When

1860, Ancona, Papal States (now Italy) — 1940, Rome, Italy

Where

Italy

Biography

Vito Volterra is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematician who co-created the Lotka-Volterra equations describing predator-prey dynamics.

How & why

Vito Volterra was an Italian mathematician and physicist who made major contributions to functional analysis and integral equations and, independently of Alfred Lotka, formulated the Lotka–Volterra equations describing predator–prey population dynamics. He later refused to swear the Fascist loyalty oath and was expelled from Italian academic life. He was Jewish, born to a Jewish family in Ancona.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

Contributions & Sources

Mathematician who co-created the Lotka-Volterra equations describing predator-prey dynamics.

1860

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology