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Alfred J. Lotka

1880 - 1949

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Alfred James Lotka (March 2, 1880 – December 5, 1949) was a Polish-American mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. A biophysicist, Lotka is best known for his proposal of the predator–prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra. The Lotka–Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in ecology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred J. Lotka is the 365th most popular mathematician (up from 473rd in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 442nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 365 out of 1,004. Before him are Francesco Maurolico, John Edensor Littlewood, George Peacock, John Graunt, Paul Émile Appell, and Otto Hesse. After him are Shiing-Shen Chern, Martin Davis, Lars Hörmander, Zhu Shijie, Daina Taimiņa, and Sergei Sobolev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 81. Before him are Tod Browning, Harold Rainsford Stark, Leon Rupnik, Fethi Okyar, Hermann von Keyserling, and Elizabeth of the Trinity. After him are Kōdō Sawaki, Waldemar Bonsels, Osami Nagano, Johannes Aavik, Leonard Woolley, and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein. Among people deceased in 1949, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 62. Before him are Vasily Degtyaryov, Prince Harald of Denmark, Infanta Blanca of Spain, Momčilo Tapavica, Walter Buch, and Hanns Albin Rauter. After him are Maria Cebotari, Mariano Fortuny, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Jacques Copeau, Alexey Shchusev, and Vladimir Nazor.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 297 out of 1,365. Before him are Vasyl Stus (1938), Franz Doppler (1821), Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Igor Oistrakh (1931), David Riazanov (1870), and Cassandre (1901). After him are Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Grunya Sukhareva (1891), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Paisius Velichkovsky (1722), and Nikolai Kibalchich (1853).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 10. Before him are Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Richard von Mises (1883), Israel Gelfand (1913), and Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804). After him are Vladimir Drinfeld (1954), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), and Pavel Urysohn (1898).

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