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Mathematical biology has its roots in population ecology, which treats the mathematical modeling of interacting species along the lines established by the mathematicians A. Lotka (1924) and V. Volterra (1926) in terms of nonlinear ordinary differential equations.
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Aniţa, S., Arnăutu, V., Capasso, V. (2010). Optimal control of diffusive models. In: An Introduction to Optimal Control Problems in Life Sciences and Economics. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8098-5_5
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