1880 - 1949
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred J. Lotka has received more than 107,204 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred J. Lotka is the 394th most popular mathematician (down from 330th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 284th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 394 out of 823. Before him are Nikolai Luzin, Rolf Nevanlinna, Pierre Wantzel, Albert Girard, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, and Jacques Tits. After him are Ignazio Danti, Henri Brocard, Ibn Sahl, Qin Jiushao, Caspar Wessel, and Lennart Carleson.
1883 - 1950
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 388
1895 - 1980
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 389
1814 - 1848
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 390
1595 - 1632
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 391
900 - 960
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 392
1930 - 2021
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 393
1880 - 1949
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 394
1536 - 1586
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 395
1845 - 1922
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 396
940 - 1000
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 397
1201 - 1261
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 398
1745 - 1818
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 399
1928 - Present
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 400
Among people born in 1880, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 95. Before him are Ildebrando Pizzetti, Begum Rokeya, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Tudor Arghezi, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, and Leonard Woolf. After him are B. C. Forbes, Georg von Trapp, Johannes Aavik, Louis Charles Breguet, Zequinha de Abreu, and Eugen Slutsky. Among people deceased in 1949, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 78. Before him are Damaskinos of Athens, James Forrestal, Tan Malaka, Boris Asafyev, Momčilo Tapavica, and Traicho Kostov. After him are Othon Friesz, Josep Maria Jujol, Henri Rabaud, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Husni al-Za'im, and André-Louis Debierne.
1880 - 1968
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 89
1880 - 1932
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 90
1880 - 1945
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 91
1880 - 1967
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 92
1880 - 1954
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 93
1880 - 1969
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 94
1880 - 1949
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 95
1880 - 1954
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 96
1880 - 1947
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 97
1880 - 1973
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 98
1880 - 1955
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 99
1880 - 1935
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 100
1880 - 1948
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 101
1891 - 1949
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 72
1892 - 1949
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 73
1897 - 1949
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 74
1884 - 1949
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 75
1872 - 1949
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 76
1897 - 1949
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 77
1880 - 1949
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 78
1879 - 1949
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 79
1879 - 1949
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 80
1873 - 1949
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 81
1866 - 1949
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 82
1897 - 1949
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 83
1874 - 1949
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 84
Among people born in Ukraine, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 360 out of 1,083. Before him are Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Leonid Bartenyev (1933), Alexander Mosolov (1900), Yevgeny Vuchetich (1908), and Igor Volk (1937). After him are Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Joseph Schmidt (1904), Karol Mikuli (1821), Olga Kurylenko (1979), and Anatoly Onoprienko (1959).
1846 - 1898
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 354
1963 - Present
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 355
1933 - 2021
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 356
1900 - 1973
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 357
1908 - 1974
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 358
1937 - 2017
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 359
1880 - 1949
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 360
1878 - 1927
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 361
1889 - 1937
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 362
1904 - 1942
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 363
1821 - 1897
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 364
1979 - Present
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 365
1959 - 2013
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 366
Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 11. Before him are Richard von Mises (1883), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Israel Gelfand (1913), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), and Igor Shafarevich (1923). After him are Georgy Voronoy (1868), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), and Vladimir Drinfeld (1954).
1883 - 1953
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 5
1945 - Present
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 6
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 7
1804 - 1889
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 8
1876 - 1964
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 9
1923 - 2017
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 10
1880 - 1949
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 11
1868 - 1908
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 12
1880 - 1968
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 13
1898 - 1924
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 14
1890 - 1963
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 15
1801 - 1859
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 16
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 17