# John Little

> John Dutton Conant Little was an American operations researcher and marketing scientist. He was an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a longtime faculty member of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is best known for Little's law, the queueing-theory relation , which states that the long-run average number of items in a stable system equals the effective arrival rate multiplied by the average time an item spends in the system.

*American mathematics professor and scholar of operations research (1928–2024)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/john-little

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1928-02-01
- **Died:** 2024-09-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 44.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 7.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 45.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100

## Sources
- [John Little (profäsoran)](https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(prof%C3%A4soran))
- [جون ليتل (رياضياتي)](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84_(%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A))
- [جون ليتل (رياضياتى من امريكا)](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84_(%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7))
- [John D. C. Little](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._C._Little)
- [John Little (academic)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(academic))
- [John Little](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little)
- [John Little (scientifique)](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(scientifique))
- [John Little (fisico)](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Little_(fisico))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809421)

---
Generated by Fame.am · https://fame.am/person/john-little