resting_place death_date birth_place fields workplaces birth_date doctoral_students article_title name
haifa 12 november 2000 leeuwarden queueing theory philips 27 august 1923 onno boxma wim cohen
 wim cohen
wim cohen

jacob willem `` wim '' cohen -lrb- 27 august 1923 leeuwarden -- 12 november 2000 -rrb- 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 -lrb- 1949 -rrb- and ph.d. degree -lrb- 1955 -rrb- 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 -lrb- 1950 -- 57 -rrb- , at the applied mathematics department at delft -lrb- 1957 -- 73 -rrb- and university of utrecht -lrb- 1973-1998 -rrb- .
he was buried in haifa .
