Branching process

In probability theory, a branching process is a Markov process that models a population in which each individual in generation n produces some random number of individuals in generation n + 1, according, in the simplest case, to a fixed probability distribution that does not vary from individual to individual. Quotes Branching processes provide perhaps the simplest example of a phase transition. They occur naturally as a model of the random evolution of a population that changes in time as a result of births and deaths. Timothy Gowers June Barrow-Green Imre Leader The Princeton Companion to Mathematics http://books.google.com/books?id=ZOfUsvemJDMC&pg=PA658 18 July 2010 Princeton University Press 1-4008-3039-7 658 External links Category:Mathematics