Lajos Takács

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Lajos Takacs (born August 21, 1924 in Maglód ; † December 4, 2015 ) was a Hungarian-American mathematician who dealt with probability theory and especially queuing theory and with stochastic processes .

Takacs studied from 1943 at the Technical University of Budapest with his doctorate in 1948 (with a study on Brownian motion ) and his habilitation (doctorate in the Russian system) in 1957 with Charles Jordan (stochastic processes from the theory of particle counters). From 1945 to 1948 he was Zoltán Bay's assistant , took part in his experiment on radar echoes from the moon and was in the research laboratories of Tungsram, which Bay led from 1948 to 1955 . He was also from 1950 to 1958 at the Institute for Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and from 1953 to 1958 assistant professor at the Eötvös Loránd University . In 1958 he went abroad. He was a lecturer at Imperial College London and the London School of Economics , professor at Columbia University from 1959 to 1966 and from 1966 at Case Western Reserve University . In 1987 he retired.

He was visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories , IBM Research and 1966 at Stanford University .

He made significant contributions to queuing theory and introduced semi-Markov processes in 1954 independently of Paul Lévy and Walter Smith .

In 1994 he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize . In 1993 he became a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Stochastic Processes. Problems and Solutions. Methuen, 1960.
  • Introduction to the Theory of Queues. Oxford University Press, 1962.
  • Combinatorial Methods in the Theory of Stochastic Processes. Wiley 1967.
  • Investigations of Waiting Time Problems by Reduction to Markov Processes. In: Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hung. Volume 6, 1955, pp. 101-129.

literature

  • Jewgeni Dshalalow, Ryszard Syski: Lajos Takács and his work. In: J. of Applied Math. And Stochastic Analysis. Volume 7, 1994, pp. 215-237 ( online , PDF; 3 MB).
  • Nicholas H. Bingham: The work of Lajos Takacs in Probability Theory. In: Journal of Applied Probability. Volume 31, 1994, pp. 29-39.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Lajos Takac's Obituary
  2. ↑ Lajos Takács in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Takács, Lajos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Takacs, Lajos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Maglód
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2015