Agner Krarup Erlang

Thinkers1878 to 1929Mathematician and engineer

Works

  • The Theory of Probabilities and Telephone Conversations, Nyt Tidsskrift for Matematik B 20 (in Danish, Sandsynlighedsregning og Telefonsamtaler), 1909

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A Danish mathematician at the Copenhagen Telephone Company who founded teletraffic engineering and queueing theory. His 1909 paper showed that random telephone calls follow a Poisson distribution, and the unit of traffic load is named after him.

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