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The Biology of Numbers - The Correspondence of Vito Volterra on Mathematical Biology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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The Biology of Numbers - The Correspondence of Vito Volterra on Mathematical Biology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, 26
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Foreword The modern developments in mathematical biology took place
roughly between 1920 and 1940, a period now referred to as the
"Golden Age of Theoretical Biology." The eminent Italian
mathematician Vito Volterra played a decisive and widely
acknowledged role in these developments. Volterra's interest in the
application of mathematics to the non physical sciences, and to
biology and economics in particular, dates back to the turn of the
century and was expressed in his inaugural address at the
University of Rome for the academic year 1900/01 (VOLTERRA 1901).
Nevertheless, it was only in the mid-twenties that Volterra entered
the field in person, at the instigation of his son in law, Umberto
D'Ancona, who had confronted him with the problem of competition
among animal species, asking him whether a mathematical treatment
was possible. From that time on, until his death in 1940, Volterra
produced a huge output of publications on the subject. Volterra's
specific project was to transfer the model and the concepts of
classical mechanics to biology, constructing a sort of "rational
mechanics" and an "analytic mechanics" of biological associations.
The new subject was thus to be equipped with a solid experimental
or at least empirical basis, also in this case following the tried
and tested example of mathematical physics. Although very few
specific features of this reductionist programme have actually
survived, Volterra's contribution was decisive, as is now
universally acknowledged, in en couraging fresh studies in the
field of mathematical biology."
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