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On nonlinear processes involving population growth and diffusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Elliott W. Montroll*
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, N.Y.

Extract

A number of years ago, R. A. Fisher discussed the problem of the propagation of a virile mutant in a population. At about the same time, Kolmogorov, Petrovsky, and Piscounoff, whom we shall refer to as KPP, investigated a general class of partial differential equations which describe simultaneous growth and diffusion processes.

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Research Papers
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Copyright © Sheffield: Applied Probability Trust 

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