Wim Cohen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wim Cohen

Dutch mathematician

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1923

Place of Birth: Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 12-Nov-2000

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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. 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.