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

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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Agner Krarup Erlang": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive