The diffusion of genes (1937)

Nicolas Bacaër ()
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Chapter Chapter 20 in A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics, 2011, pp 111-116 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 1937 Ronald Fisher and three Russian mathematicians, Kolmogorov, Petrovsky and Piskunov, independently studied a partial differential equation for the geographic spread of an advantageous gene. They showed that the gene frequency behaved like a wave travelling at a well-defined speed depending on the gene’s advantage and on a diffusion coefficient. Their works were the starting point for the theory of reaction–diffusion equations.

Keywords: Diffusion Equation; USSR Academy; Advantageous Gene; Mendelian Genetic; Favourable Gene (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_20

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