5.1. Lajos Takács and his Work
There is no doubt that he is the most well-known,reputed and celebrated Hungarian in this field. In the second half of 1994, many scientific institutions (including the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Operations Research Society of America, The Institute of Management Sciences, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences) celebrated his 70th birthday, which took place on August 21, 1994. In addition, a special volume, Studies in Applied Probability (31A of Journal of Applied Probability, edited by J. Galambos and J. Gani), [12], appeared in the first half of 1994 honoring Professor Takács. Another paper, [7] was devoted to his 70th birthday written by Dshalalow and Syski where we can read