Mathematician:Agner Krarup Erlang

Mathematician
Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.

Nationality
Danish

History

 * Born: 1 January 1878 in Lønborg (near Tarm), Jutland, Denmark
 * Died: 3 February 1929 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Theorems and Definitions

 * Erlang Distribution
 * Erlang (international unit of telephone traffic)
 * Erlang Formula

Publications

 * 1909: The Theory of Probabilities and Telephone Conversations
 * 1917: Solution of some Problems in the Theory of Probabilities of Significance in Automatic Telephone Exchanges