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Book Information:
Author:
Horst R. Thieme
Title:
Mathematics in population biology
Additional book information:
Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Biology, Princeton Univ. Press,
Princeton and Oxford,
2003,
568 pp.,
ISBN 0-691-09291-5,
$49.50$,
paper;
ISBN 0-691-09290-7,
$95.00$,
cloth
Francesco M. Scudo and James R. Ziegler (eds.), The golden age of theoretical ecology, 1923–1940, Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol. 22, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1978. A collection of works by V. Volterra, V. A. Kostitzin, A. J. Lotka and A. N. Kolmogoroff. MR 521933
2.R. M. May, Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems, Princeton Landmarks in Biology, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2001.
3.J. D. Aber, Why don't we believe the models?, Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 78 (1997), 232-233.
- 1.
- F. M. Scuda and J. R. Ziegler, The Golden Age of Theoretical Ecology, 1923-1940: A Collection of Works by Volterra, Kostitzin, Lotka, and Kolmogorov, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1978. MR 0521933 (80c:01021)
- 2.
- R. M. May, Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems, Princeton Landmarks in Biology, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2001.
- 3.
- J. D. Aber, Why don't we believe the models?, Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 78 (1997), 232-233.
Review Information:
Reviewer:
J. M. Cushing
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Email:
cushing@math.arizona.edu
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
42 (2005), 501-505
Published electronically:
March 30, 2005
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