Feller's Contributions to Mathematical Biology

Publication date 21 January 2015

Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics (01A75) History of probability theory (60-03) Diffusion processes (60J60) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: This is a review of William Feller's important contributions to mathematical biology. The seminal paper [Feller1951] "Diffusion processes in genetics" was particularly influential on the development of stochastic processes at the interface to evolutionary biology, and interesting ideas in this direction (including a first characterization of what is nowadays known as "Feller's branching diffusion") already shaped up in the paper [Feller 1939] (written in German) "The foundations of a probabistic treatment of Volterra's theory of the struggle for life". Feller's article "On fitness and the cost of natural selection" [Feller 1967] contains a critical analysis of the concept of "genetic load".

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