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In a volume dedicated to Ted Harris, it is appropriate that there should be some discussion of branching processes, a subject of which he is one of the founders. In a series of papers in the 1940’s and 50’s (see references [1] to [9] at the end of this paper), culminating in his famous 1963 book “The Theory of Branching Processes” [10], he helped to lay the rigorous mathematical foundations of the subject, to answer a number of basic questions, and to show the direction of many future lines of research.
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Ney, P. (1991). Branching Random Walk. In: Alexander, K.S., Watkins, J.C. (eds) Spatial Stochastic Processes. Progress in Probability, vol 19. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0451-0_1
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