MATHEMATICIAN

Alfred J. Lotka

1880 - 1949

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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 119,221 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alfred J. Lotka is the 473rd most popular mathematician (down from 393rd in 2019), the 442nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 357th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 473 out of 1,004Before him are Isadore Singer, Hermann Hankel, Raoul Bott, Daniele Barbaro, Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, and James Stirling. After him are Dennis Sullivan, Al-Mahani, Federico Commandino, Adam Ries, Johann Samuel König, and Lazarus Fuchs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 107Before him are Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Marie Stopes, Fritz Bleyl, Tudor Arghezi, Frigyes Riesz, and Lytton Strachey. After him are Mirza Kuchik Khan, B. C. Forbes, Hans Hofmann, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Adrian Carton de Wiart. Among people deceased in 1949, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 90Before him are Vyacheslav Ivanov, Kanji Ishiwara, Boris Asafyev, Tan Malaka, Otto Nerz, and Martin Knudsen. After him are Jankel Adler, Douglas Hyde, Antoun Saadeh, Ehmetjan Qasim, Damaskinos of Athens, and Charles Dullin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 442 out of 1,365Before him are Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Karol Mikuli (1821), Hugo Kołłątaj (1750), Nikolai Linevich (1839), Marian Jaworski (1926), and Ada Rogovtseva (1937). After him are Otto Struve (1897), Boris Iofan (1891), Alexander Spendiaryan (1871), Yury Olesha (1899), Emil Paur (1855), and Isaak Dunayevsky (1900).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Alfred J. Lotka ranks 13Before him are Israel Gelfand (1913), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Georgy Voronoy (1868), and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880). After him are Pavel Urysohn (1898), Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Mark Krein (1907), Jerzy Różycki (1909), and Vladimir Drinfeld (1954).