Branching Processes: A Personal Historical Perspective.
Book chapter, 2020
The chapter, based on an Oberwolfach talk, gives a - personally biased - sketch of the development of branching processes, from the mid 19th Century to recently, emphasizing relations to bioscience and demography, and to society and culture in general.
Author
Peter Jagers
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Statistical Modeling for Biological Systems: In Memory of Andrei Yakovlev
978-3-030-34674-4 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Evolutionary Biology
Mathematics
Cell Biology
Ecology
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Probability Theory and Statistics
Genetics
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-34675-1_18