The story
First published by Felix Pollaczek in 1930, and recast in probabilistic terms by Aleksandr Khinchin two years later.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pollaczek-Khinchine formula
Today it means: A formula that states a relationship between the queue length and service time distribution Laplace transforms for an M/G/1 queue. Full definition →