Title of article
Re-inventing Willis
Author/Authors
Simkin، نويسنده , , M.V. and Roychowdhury، نويسنده , , V.P.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
Pages
35
From page
1
To page
35
Abstract
Scientists often re-invent things that were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain experimental data on the sizes of biological genera, collected by Willis. We also review the history of re-invention of closely related branching processes, random graphs and coagulation models.
Journal title
Physics Reports
Serial Year
2011
Journal title
Physics Reports
Record number
2191889
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