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

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Latest update

4/21/2023