A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics

The Fibonacci sequence (1202).- Halley's life table (1693).- Euler and the geometric growth of populations (1748-1761).- Daniel Bernoulli, d'Alembert and the inoculation of smallpox (1760).- Malthus and the obstacles to geometric growth (1798).- Verhulst and the logistic equation (1838).- Bienaymé, Cournot and the extinction of family names (1845-1847).- Mendel and heredity (1865).- Galton, Watson and the extinction problem (1873-1875).- Lotka and stable population theory (1907-1911).- The Hardy-Weinberg law (1908).- Ross and malaria (1911).- Lotka, Volterra and the predator-prey system (1920-1926).- Fisher and natural selection (1922).- Yule and evolution (1924).- McKendrick and Kermack on epidemic modelling (1926-1927).- Haldane and mutations (1927).- Erlang and Steffensen on the extinction problem (1929-1933).- Wright and random genetic drift (1931).- The diffusion of genes (1937).- 21 The Leslie matrix (1945).- 22 Percolation and epidemics (1957).- 23 Game theory and evolution (1973).- 24 Chaotic populations (1974).- 25 China's one-child policy (1980).- 26 Some contemporary problems.