Background
May, Robert McCredie was born on January 8, 1936 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Henry W. and Kathleen (McCredie) May.
( The Description for this book, Stability and Complexity...)
The Description for this book, Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems. (MPB-6), will be forthcoming.
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( What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluct...)
What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973, Robert May addressed these questions in this classic book. May investigated the mathematical roots of population dynamics and argued-counter to most current biological thinking-that complex ecosystems in themselves do not lead to population stability. Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems played a key role in introducing nonlinear mathematical models and the study of deterministic chaos into ecology, a role chronicled in James Gleick's book Chaos. In the quarter century since its first publication, the book's message has grown in power. Nonlinear models are now at the center of ecological thinking, and current threats to biodiversity have made questions about the role of ecosystem complexity more crucial than ever. In a new introduction, the author addresses some of the changes that have swept biology and the biological world since the book's first publication.
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(This book deals with infectious diseases -- viral, bacter...)
This book deals with infectious diseases -- viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth -- in terms of the dynamics of their interaction with host populations. The book combines mathematical models with extensive use of epidemiological and other data. This analytic framework is highly useful for the evaluation of public health strategies aimed at controlling or eradicating particular infections. Such a framework is increasingly important in light of the widespread concern for primary health care programs aimed at such diseases as measles, malaria, river blindness, sleeping sickness, and schistosomiasis, and the advent of AIDS/HIV and other emerging viruses. Throughout the book, the mathematics is used as a tool for thinking clearly about fundamental and applied problems having to do with infectious diseases. The book is divided into two parts, one dealing with microparasites (viruses, bacteria and protozoans) and the other with macroparasites (helminths and parasitic arthropods). Each part begins with simple models, developed in a biologically intuitive way, and then goes on to develop more complicated and realistic models as tools for public health planning. The book synthesizes previous work in this rapidly growing field (much of which is scattered between the ecological and the medical literature) with a good deal of new material.
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May, Robert McCredie was born on January 8, 1936 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Henry W. and Kathleen (McCredie) May.
Bachelor of Science, Sydney University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Sydney University, 1959. Doctor of Science (honorary), City University London, 1989.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Uppsala University, 1990. Doctor of Science (honorary), Yale University, 1993. Doctor of Science (honorary), Heriot-Watt University, 1994.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Edinburgh, 1994. Distinguished Service Cross (honorary), University Sydney, 1995.
Gordon Mackay lecturer applied math, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959-1961;
member visiting faculty, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966;
theoretical physics lecturer, Sydney U., 1962-1964;
reader, Sydney U., 1964-1969;
personal chair, Sydney U., 1969-1973;
professor biology, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1973-1988;
Royal Society research professor, U. Oxford, England, since 1989;
fellow Merton College, U. Oxford, England, since 1989. Chief science adviser to United Kingdom Government, head United Kingdom Office Science and Technology, since 1995. Visiting faculty California Institute Technology, 1967.
Visiting professor Imperial College, England, since 1975, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Culham Laboratory, 1971, Magdalen College, 1971.
( What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluct...)
(This book deals with infectious diseases -- viral, bacter...)
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Trustee Nuffield Foundation, Cambridge University Gates Trust. Chairman emeritus board trustees Natural History Museum. Board member United Kingdom Sport Institute.
Fellow Royal Society (president 2000-2005, Copley medal, 2007), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member National Academy of Sciences, Athenaeum Club.
Married Judith Feiner, August 3, 1962. 1 daughter, Naomi Felicity.