Mathematician:Agner Krarup Erlang
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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
Definitions of concepts named for Agner Krarup Erlang can be found here.
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