Agner Krarup Erlang
1878-1929
Born in 1878 in Lonborg, Jutland, Denmark, Erlang showed early promise in mathematics. At age 14, he passed the required tests in Copenhagen to teach. When he finally att...
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Erlang is regarded as the founder of queuing theory and of operations research. His formulas, designed and published in 1917, enabled early telephone switching systems to become operational. These for...
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