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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 141 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Chapters: Agner Krarup Erlang, T. O. Engset, Thomas L. Saaty, John Kingman, Leonard Kleinrock, Václav E. Beneš, David Cox, Frank Kelly, David George Kendall, Peter G. Harrison, Jeffrey P. Buzen, John Little, Aleksandr Khinchin, Ryszard Syski, U. Narayan Bhat, Gordon F. Newell, N. U. Prabhu, Conny Palm, Christian Jacobæus, Felix Pollaczek, Wim Cohen, Debasis Mitra, Edward C. Molina, Onno J. Boxma, Michel Mandjes, James R. Jackson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, a mathematician, was born on 28 August 1939 in Beckenham, Kent. He was N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006, when he was succeeded by Sir David Wallace. He is famous for developing the mathematics of the coalescent, a theoretical model of inheritance, which is fundamental to modern population genetics. Though his grandfather was a coal miner, his father, who had obtained a Ph.D from Bristol University, held a government scientific post where he married John's mother Maud Elsie Harley who came from a London family. John grew up in London, attending Christ's College school Finchley, eventually being awarded a scholarship to read mathematics at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1956. On graduating in 1960, he began work on his PhD under the supervision of Peter Whittle, studying queueing theory, Markov chains and regenerative phenomena. A year later, Whittle left Cambridge for the University of Manchester, and, rather than follow him there, Kingman moved instead to Oxford where he resumed his work under David Kendall. After another year, Kendall was appointed to a professorship at Cambridge and so Kingman returned to the University. He returned...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3201866 ... Read more

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Agner Krarup Erlang (* 1. Januar 1878 in Lonborg, Dänemark; † 3. Februar 1929 in Kopenhagen) war ein dänischer Mathematiker und Ingenieur. Er machte sich unter anderem Gedanken über Warteschlangenprobleme in der Telefonie. Nach Vorschlag von David George Kendall wurde das Maß Erlang nach Agner Krarup Erlang benannt.Erlang entwickelte die in der Nachrichtenverkehrstheorie viel verwendete Erlang-Verteilung und damit die Formeln für Blockierung und Warten im Verlustsystem bzw. Wartesystem. ... Read more

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Chapters: Agner Krarup Erlang, Anders Hald, Thorvald N. Thiele. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Agner Krarup Erlang (January 1, 1878 February 3, 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory. Erlang 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 present day telecommunication network studies. Erlang was born at Lonborg (Lønborg), near Tarm, in Jutland. He was the son of a schoolmaster, and a descendant of Thomas Fincke on his mother's side. At age 14, he passed the Preliminary Examination of the University of Copenhagen with distinction, after receiving dispensation to take it because he was younger than the usual minimum age. For the next two years he taught alongside his father. A distant relative provided free board and lodging, and Erlang prepared for and took the University of Copenhagen entrance examination in 1896, and passed with distinction. He won a scholarship to the University and majored in mathematics, and also studied astronomy, physics and chemistry. He graduated in 1901 with an MA and over the next 7 years taught at several schools including the Milton House School of Statistics and the St John's Centre for Resource Planning. He maintained his interest in mathematics, and received an award for a paper that he submitted to the University of Copenhagen. He was a member of the Danish Mathematicians' Association (TBMI) and through this met amateur mathematician Johan Jensen, the Chief Engineer of...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2948 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Agner Krarup Erlang, Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, Jakob Stoustrup, Ludwig A. Colding, Erik Reitzel, Valdemar Poulsen, Peder Oluf Pedersen, Carl Emil Krarup, Anker Engelund, P. Ole Fanger, Henrik O. Madsen, Johan Jensen, Kristian Hindhede. Excerpt: Jakob Stoustrup is a Danish Professor in the area of Control Theory at Aalborg University since 1997. He has an extensive publication record in the areas of Robust Control and Fault Tolerant Control, as well as in a long range of applications of control theory. Jakob Stoustrup received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1991, both from the Technical University of Denmark. After a first position as Teaching Assistant at the Technical University of Denmark, and visiting researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 1988, he became Senior Researcher sponsored by Danish Technical Research Council, 1991. Assistant Professor 1991-1995, and Associate Professor 1995-1996, both at the Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark. He was visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., in 1996, and later Visiting Professor at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 2003. Since 1997 (full) Professor at Automation ... Read more

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Chapters: Danish Military Engineers, Ove Arup, Ove Arup Buildings and Structures, Agner Krarup Erlang, Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, Henrik Ruse, Jakob Stoustrup, Labworth Café, Anthony Coucheron, Ludwig A. Colding, Erik Reitzel, Valdemar Poulsen, Kingsgate Bridge, Willem Coucheron, Peder Oluf Pedersen, Carl Emil Krarup, Anker Engelund, P. Ole Fanger, Henrik O. Madsen, Johan Jensen, Kristian Hindhede. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Agner Krarup Erlang Agner Krarup Erlang (January 1, 1878 February 3, 1929) was a Danish mathematician , statistician and engineer , who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory .Erlang 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 present day telecommunication network studies.Life Erlang was born at Lonborg (Lønborg), near Tarm , in Jutland . He was the son of a schoolmaster, and a descendant of Thomas Fincke on his mother's side. At age 14, he passed the Preliminary Examination of the University of Copenhagen with distinction, after receiving dispensation to take it because he was younger than the usual minimum age. For the next two years he taught alongside his father.A distant relative provided free board and lodging, and Erlang prepared for and took the University of Copenhagen entrance examination in 1896, and passed with distinction. He won a scholarship to the University and majored in mathematics , and also studied astronomy , physics and chemistry . He graduated in 1901 with an MA and over the next 7 years taught at several schools including the Milton House School... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! AgnerKrarup Erlang was a Danish mathematician,statistician and engineer, who invented the fieldsof traffic engineering and queueing theory. Erlangcreated the field of telephone networks analysis.His early work in scrutinizing the use of local,exchange and trunk telephone line usage in a smallcommunity, to understand the theoreticalrequirements of an efficient network led to thecreation of the Erlang formula, which became afoundational element of present daytelecommunication network studies. ... Read more