Role Mathematician Alma mater Delft University | Doctoral students Onno Boxma Name Wim Cohen | |
Born August 27, 1923Leeuwarden ( 1923-08-27 ) Institutions PhilipsUniversity of UtrechtDelft University Thesis On stress calculations in helicoidal shells and propeller blades (1955) Died November 12, 2000, The Hague, Netherlands Education Delft University of Technology Books The single server queue, Boundary value problems, On regenerative processe | ||
Jacob Willem "Wim" Cohen (27 August 1923 Leeuwarden – 12 November 2000) was a Dutch mathematician, well known for over hundred scientific publications and several books in queueing theory.
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Cohen was born in a Jewish family, as the son of Benjamin Cohen and Aaltje Klein. Having acquired an autodidact knowledge of mathematics while in hiding during World War II, Cohen got an Engineer's degree (1949) and Ph.D. degree (1955) in mechanical engineering at Delft University, on a dissertation entitled Stress Calculations in Helicoidal Shells and Propeller Blades. He worked as teletraffic engineer with the Telecommunications group at Philips (1950–57), at the applied mathematics department at Delft (1957–73) and University of Utrecht (1973-1998). He was buried in Haifa.