Alfred J. Lotka

American mathematician

Alfred James Lotka (March 2, 1880 – December 5, 1949) was a US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American 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.

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Alfred J. Lotka was born on Tuesday, 2 March 1880 in Lviv. They were best known as a scientist. Lotka's country of citizenship (nationality) was Hungarian. They died on Monday, 5 December 1949 in New York City at the age of 69. Their religion is listed as Jewish. Their zodiac star sign were Pisces.

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