Wim Cohen

{{Short description|Dutch mathematician (1923–2000)}}

{{Distinguish|Jacob Cohen (statistician)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Wim Cohen

| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|08|27}}

| birth_place = Leeuwarden

| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|11|12|1923|08|27}}

| resting_place = Haifa

| fields = Queueing theory

| workplaces = Philips
University of Utrecht
Delft University

| alma_mater = Delft University

| thesis_title = On stress calculations in helicoidal shells and propeller blades

| thesis_url = http://repository.tudelft.nl/assets/uuid:79c684b6-617c-447f-a238-3deba9935408/73352.pdf

| thesis_year = 1955

| doctoral_advisor = Warner T. Koiter{{MathGenealogy|id=26687}}

| doctoral_students = Onno Boxma

}}

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.{{MacTutor|id=Cohen_Wim|title=Wim Cohen}} 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 titled 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.{{Cite journal | last1 = Syski | first1 = R. | author-link1 = Ryszard Syski| doi = 10.1155/S1048953301000028 | title = Remembering Wim Cohen | journal = Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis | volume = 14 | pages = 1–9 | year = 2001 | doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Boxma | first1 = O. J. | author-link1 = Onno Boxma| last2 = Syski | first2 = R. | author-link2 = Ryszard Syski| doi = 10.1239/jap/996986766 | title = Obituary: Jacob Willem Cohen | journal = Journal of Applied Probability | volume = 38 | issue = 2 | pages = 604 | year = 2001 | s2cid = 121138522 | url = http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:62bf956e-00ec-4c7a-a7d8-7cb312d132dd }}