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Agner Krarup Erlang

1878 - 1929

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Agner Krarup Erlang (1 January 1878 – 3 February 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory. Erlang's 1909 paper, and subsequent papers over the decades, are regarded as containing some of most important concepts and techniques for queueing theory. By the time of his relatively early death at the age of 51, Erlang had created the field of telephone networks analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agner Krarup Erlang has received more than 227,931 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Agner Krarup Erlang is the 562nd most popular mathematician (down from 466th in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 297th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 562 out of 1,004. Before him are Cahit Arf, Henri Brocard, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Paul Bernays, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, and Gino Fano. After him are Francesco Barozzi, Ibrahim ibn Sinan, Thoralf Skolem, Giacomo F. Maraldi, Klára Dán von Neumann, and Friedrich Robert Helmert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 134. Before him are Massimo Bontempelli, Chen Jiongming, Pierre Fatou, Anna Coleman Ladd, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, and Max Dehn. After him are Karl Hofer, Glenn Curtiss, Gyula Krúdy, Chen Qimei, Raymond Smith Dugan, and Oton Župančič. Among people deceased in 1929, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 84. Before him are Pierre Fatou, Leonard Hobhouse, Manuel Díaz, Amandus Adamson, Wilhelm von Bode, and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq. After him are Ivo Vojnović, Otto Binswanger, Ernest Mason Satow, Julio Antonio Mella, Basil III of Constantinople, and Cornelis Lely.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 358 out of 1,032. Before him are Kurt Nielsen (1930), Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark (1706), Bernhard Rogge (1899), Greta Andersen (1927), Thorkild Hansen (1927), and Johnny Hansen (1943). After him are Johannes Jørgensen (1866), Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789), Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929), Mikkel Hansen (1987), Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801), and Karen Harup (1924).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Denmark

Among mathematicians born in Denmark, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 3. Before him are Harald Bohr (1887), and Piet Hein (1905). After him are Julius Petersen (1839), Georg Mohr (1640), Johan Jensen (1859), Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), and Poul Heegaard (1871).

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