01. Nov. 2007
The Bashful Genius
B = yX/x! / (1 + y + y2/2! + y3/3! +...+ yX/x!) Such a formula is likely to put most of us out of breath, but not the mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang. Erlang led a quiet, obscure life, but his work was revolutionary and obtained international recognition. This year it is 90 years since he as one of our greatest mathematic geniuses presented the formula that became the precondition of modern traffic theory.
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