Queueing Theorists - Agner Krarup ERLANG, T. O. Engset, Thomas L. Saaty, John Kingman, Leonard Kleinrock, V Clav E. Bene, David Cox (Paperback)

Chapters: Agner Krarup Erlang, T. O. Engset, Thomas L. Saaty, John Kingman, Leonard Kleinrock, V clav E. Bene, 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 Jacob us, 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