T. O. Engset, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian mathematician
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Place of Birth: Stranda, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
About T. O. Engset
- Tore Olaus Engset (May 8, 1865 – October, 1943 in Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician and engineer who did pioneering work in the field of telephone traffic queuing theory.Tore Olaus Engset was born at Stranda in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.
- After he graduated school at the age of 18, Engset was admitted to the telegraph school in Stavanger in 1883.
- He received his certificate in a year and took employment.
- In his spare time he continued his studies, graduating in 1892 but continuing his university studies.
- Engset received an M.Sc.
- in physics and mathematics (1894) at University of Oslo, after which he worked at Televerket as office worker, traffic analyst and later at age 65 director general (1921-22 (acting), 1930–35). He developed the Engset formula (1915) before the breakthroughs of A.
- K.
- Erlang (1917).
- His 1915 manuscript "Om beregningen av vælgere i et automatisk telefonsystem" (1915) was not, however, published until 1918.
- That work was translated to German as "Die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung zur Bestimmung der Wählerzahl in automatischen Fernsprechämtern", in Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift, Heft 31, 1918.
- An English translation appeared in Arne Myskja, "On the Calculation of Switches in an Automatic Telephone System" in Telektronikk, 94(2):99-142, 1998. He also published a work on nuclear physics (1927): "Die Bahnen und die Lichtstrahlung der Wasserstoffelektronen.
- Ergänzende Betrachtungen über Bahnformen und Strahlungsfrequenzen" (3 parts) in Annalen der Physik, 82 (1927) 1017; 83 (1927) 903; 84 (1927) 880.
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