Abstract
The chemist and statistician Lotka, as well as the mathematician Volterra, studied the ecological problem of a predator population interacting with the prey one. They independently produced the equations that give the model of this problem and discovered that, under simple hypotheses, periodic fluctuations of the populations occur. We present their lives and the derivation of the equations which bear their names
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M.C. Anisiu
Tiberiu Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis Romanian Academy
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Predator-prey model; integro-differential equations
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M.C. Anisiu, Lotka, Volterra and their model, Didactica Mathematica, 32 (2014), pp. 9-17.
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Didactica Matematica
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Babes-Bolyai University
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