50 Years Ago

摘要

Mathematical Methods in the Theory of Queueing. By A. Y. KhintiStine - This beautiful little book breathes reason and modesty from cover to cover... A particularly pleasing feature is the way in which the results are developed; the mathematics is 'done', not merely indicated, and nowhere does the author state a result said refer the reader elsewhere for the details. Thus there is a satisfying aspect of completion about the exposition... The theory of queues has undergone considerable development in recent years. Some mathematicians think the development has gone too far. Whether this is so or not the book under review will serve to show that the phenomenon of queueing represents another human experience which has bowed to the forces of applied mathematics; the concepts that have been built around this experience have proved to be of the right kind, and sufficient in number, for the mathematical development to go 'with a bang'. From Nature 15 July 1961.