Felix Pollaczek
Felix Pollaczek · Science & Medicine
Queueing theory; the Pollaczek-Khinchine formula
1892, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1981, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Austria · Germany · France
Felix Pollaczek is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Queueing theory; the Pollaczek-Khinchine formula
Pollaczek was an Austrian-French mathematician and engineer who founded key results in queueing theory; the Pollaczek–Khinchine formula, giving the mean waiting time in a single-server queue, remains fundamental to telecommunications and operations research. He was Jewish and fled Nazi Germany for France.
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Queueing theory; the Pollaczek-Khinchine formula
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