Lajos Takacs

摘要

Professor emeritus Lajos Takacs passed away on December 4, 2015, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He is survived by his wife Dalma, their two daughters Judith and Susan, and their families. Lajos Takacs will be remembered as a brilliant mathematician, a groundbreaking contributor to the theory of stochastic processes, a world-leading queueing theorist, and a very kind person. We provide here a short biography and a discussion of his main contributions to queueing and fluctuation theory.