death_date death_place birth_place image_size birth_date image article_title name occupation
3 february 1929 1 january 1878 copenhagen , denmark lønborg , denmark 200px 1 january 1878 erlang.jpg agner krarup erlang
 agner krarup erlang mathematician , statistician , and engineer
agner krarup erlang

agner krarup erlang -lrb- 1 january 1878 -- 3 february 1929 -rrb- 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 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 .
