1878 - 1929
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, 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.
1977 - 2017
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 461
1944 - Present
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 462
1492 - 1559
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 463
1944 - 2019
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 464
190 BC - 120 BC
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 465
1584 - 1667
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 466
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 467
1740 - 1784
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 468
1880 - 1968
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 469
1898 - 1924
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 470
1886 - 1939
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 471
1884 - 1944
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 472
1896 - 1950
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 473
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.
1878 - 1943
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 109
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 110
1878 - 1968
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 111
1878 - 1919
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 112
1878 - 1925
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 113
1878 - 1923
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 114
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 115
1878 - 1975
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 116
1878 - 1936
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 117
1878 - 1956
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 118
1878 - 1951
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 119
1878 - 1938
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 120
1878 - 1939
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 121
1846 - 1929
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 66
1854 - 1929
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 67
1864 - 1929
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 68
1874 - 1929
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 69
1848 - 1929
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 70
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 71
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 72
1844 - 1929
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 73
1845 - 1929
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 74
1885 - 1929
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 75
1853 - 1929
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 76
1873 - 1929
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 77
1849 - 1929
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 78
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).
1588 - 1654
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 293
1929 - 1987
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 294
1819 - 1907
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 295
1244 - 1287
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 296
1834 - 1900
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 297
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 298
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 299
1853 - 1927
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 300
1928 - 2023
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 301
1949 - 2017
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 302
1968 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 303
1994 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 304
1924 - 1990
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 305
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).
1887 - 1951
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 1
1905 - 1996
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 2
1859 - 1925
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 3
1878 - 1929
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 4
1640 - 1697
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 5
1839 - 1910
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 6
1850 - 1916
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 7
1871 - 1948
HPI: 41.68
Rank: 8