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Vito Volterra, “Ecology” and the quantification of “Darwinism”. (English) Zbl 0978.01026

International conference in memory of Vito Volterra. Papers of the conference, Rome, Italy, October 8-11, 1990. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Atti Convegni Lincei. 92, 313-333 (1992).
The author shows some systems of differential or integro-differential equations which were introduced by Vito Volterra as mathematical models for the study of fluctuations in the number of jointly living animal species, specially emphasizing some aspects related to evolution theory.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0957.00059].

MSC:

01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
92-03 History of biology

Biographic References:

Volterra, V.
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