Re-inventing Willis
物理与社会
2011-04-15 v3 统计力学
统计理论
统计理论
摘要
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.
引用
@article{arxiv.physics/0601192,
title = {Re-inventing Willis},
author = {M. V. Simkin and V. P. Roychowdhury},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0601192},
year = {2011}
}
备注
Physics Reports (2011)