Agner Krarup Erlang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Agner Krarup Erlang

Danish mathematician

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1878

Place of Birth: Denmark

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1929

Profession: engineer, mathematician, statistician

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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.
His early work in scrutinizing the use of local, exchange and trunk telephone line usage in a small community to understand the theoretical requirements of an efficient network led to the creation of the Erlang formula, which became a foundational element of modern telecommunication network studies.