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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. 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 216,523 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Agner Krarup Erlang is the 467th most popular mathematician (up from 473rd in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 300th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 467 out of 823. Before him are Maryam Mirzakhani, Whitfield Diffie, Adam Ries, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Hypsicles, and Grégoire de Saint-Vincent. After him are Anders Johan Lexell, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Pavel Urysohn, Stanisław Leśniewski, George David Birkhoff, and Edward Arthur Milne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 115. Before him are Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Pierre Fatou, Lina Stern, Victor Segalen, Konrad Mägi, and Takeo Arishima. After him are Ernst Alexanderson, Karl Buresch, Paul Renner, Selim Palmgren, Egon Friedell, and Anna Coleman Ladd. Among people deceased in 1929, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 72. Before him are Raoul Pictet, Vasil Radoslavov, Tsuda Umeko, Clemens von Pirquet, Lilli Lehmann, and Pierre Fatou. After him are Gustave Schlumberger, Wilhelm von Bode, Paul Leni, Lillie Langtry, Charles Fox Parham, and Charles F. Brush.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 299 out of 893. Before him are Ole Worm (1588), Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929), Lucile Grahn (1819), Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway (1244), Carl Lange (1834), and Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1947). After him are Laurits Tuxen (1853), Torben Ulrich (1928), Henning Jensen (1949), Margrethe Vestager (1968), Kenneth Zohore (1994), and John Hansen (1924).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Denmark

Among mathematicians born in Denmark, Agner Krarup Erlang ranks 4. Before him are Harald Bohr (1887), Piet Hein (1905), and Johan Jensen (1859). After him are Georg Mohr (1640), Julius Petersen (1839), Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), and Poul Heegaard (1871).

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