Wim Cohen

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Jacob Willem "Wim" Cohen (August 27, 1923 in Leeuwarden - November 12, 2000) was a Dutch mathematician, well known for over hundred scientific publications and several books in queueing theory.

Having acquired an autodidact knowledge of mathematics while in hiding during World War II, Cohen got his M.Sc. (1949) and Ph.D. (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.[1][2][3]

[edit] Books

  • The single server queue (1969)
  • Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioural Sciences (Academic Press, 1969)
  • On regenerative processes in queueing theory
  • Boundary value problems in queueing systems (Elsevier, 1983). Editor with Onno J. Boxma.
  • Analysis of random walks (IOS Press, 1992)

[edit] Awards

  • Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen AKZO prize (1986)
  • honorary doctorate from the Technion (1988)
  • honorary member of the International Advisory Committee of the ITC Teletraffic Congresses.

[edit] References

  1. ^ obituary from Leiden University
  2. ^ obituary at cwi.nl (with picture)
  3. ^ Obituary: Jacob Willem Cohen by Onno J. Boxma and Ryszard Syski, in Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 604-608