Peter Turchin is a specialist in
population dynamics and
mathematical modeling of historical dynamics ("cliodynamics").
He was born in
Moscow in 1958.
In 1975 he entered the School of Biology of the
Moscow State University and studied there till 1977 when his father, a
Soviet dissident scientist
Valentin Turchin, was extradicted from the USSR. He got his B.A. in
Biology from the
New York University (cum laude) in 1980. He got his
Ph.D. in
Zoology in 1985 from
Duke University.
Peter Turchin is a professor of
University of Connecticut in the Department of
Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology as well as the Department of
Mathematics. He is one of the founders of theory of Cliodynamics, the new scientific discipline related to
Cliometrics that investigates such dynamical processes in history. His ideas contributed to
social cycle theory through the development of the mathematical models of long-term ("secular") sociodemographic cycles. He has also suggested a novel mathematical expression of the sociological theory of
Ibn Khaldun.
His publications include:
Turchin, P., et al., eds. 2007.
History & Mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies. Moscow: KomKniga. ISBN 5484010020
Turchin P. 2006.
War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations. New York: Pi Press.
Turchin P. 2006. Population Density and Warfare: A Reconsideration.
Social Evolution & History 5(2): 121–158 (with
Andrey Korotayev).
Turchin, P. 2003.
Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Turchin, P. 2003.
Complex Population Dynamics: a Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Turchin, P. 1998.
Quantitative Analysis of Movement: measuring and modeling population redistribution in plants and animals. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
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Population dynamics is the study of marginal and long-term changes in the numbers, individual weights and age composition of individuals in one or several populations, and biological and environmental processes influencing those changes.
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Soviet dissidents were citizens of the Soviet Union who disagreed with the policies and actions of their government and actively protested against these actions through non-violent means.
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Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin (Russian: Валенти́н Фёдорович Турчи́н
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Biology (from Greek: βίος, bio, "life"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge"), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the scientific study of life.
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Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.[9] In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B.
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Cliometrics refers to the systematic use of economic theory and econometric techniques to study economic history. The term was originally coined by Jonathan R.T. Hughes and Stanley Reiter in 1960 and refers to Clio, who was the muse of history and heroic poetry in Greek mythology.
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Ibn Khaldun
Birth: 27 May, 1332/732 AH
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Andrey Korotayev (born in 1961) is an anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist.
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