Biography:Daniel I. A. Cohen

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Short description: American computer scientist
Daniel I. A. Cohen
Born1946
NationalityAmerican
OccupationMathematician, computer scientist, professor emeritus
Years active1967-present?
EmployerHunter College

Daniel Isaac Aryeh Cohen (born 1946) is an American mathematician and computer scientist who is now a professor emeritus at Hunter College.[1]

Cohen earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University in 1967[1][2] and already as an undergraduate published a research paper about Sperner's lemma, which he learned about from Hans Rademacher.[3] He completed his doctorate in 1975 from Harvard University under the joint supervision of Andrew M. Gleason and Gian-Carlo Rota.[4] He was a mathematician at Hunter College in 1981 when the computer science department was founded, and became one of five initial computer science professors there.[5]

Cohen is the author of the textbooks Basic Techniques of Combinatorial Theory (John Wiley & Sons, 1979)[6] and Introduction to Computer Theory (John Wiley & Sons, 1986; 2nd ed., 1996).

An undergraduate award for a graduating senior at Hunter College, the Daniel I.A. Cohen Prize for Academic Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science, was named after Cohen.[7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Faculty in Hunter's Computer Science Department, Hunter College, http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/csci/people/faculty, retrieved 2015-09-27 .
  2. Graduation year from Cohen, Daniel I. A. (January 18, 2012), "Holding the line on A's", Princeton Alumni Weekly, https://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/01/18/sections/letters/6061/index.xml? .
  3. Cohen, Daniel I. A. (1967), "On the Sperner lemma", Journal of Combinatorial Theory 2 (4): 585–587, doi:10.1016/s0021-9800(67)80062-0 .
  4. Daniel I. A. Cohen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  5. CS Department History, Hunter College, http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/csci/about-cs/about-the-computer-science-program, retrieved 2015-09-27 .
  6. Buchanan, Iain (1980), "Basic Techniques of Combinatorial Theory", Journal of the Operational Research Society 31: 85, doi:10.1057/jors.1980.16 .
  7. Ruth Hauptman wins inaugural Daniel I. A. Cohen Prize for Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science, Hunter College, http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/csci/pressroom/news/ruth-hauptman-wins-inaugural-d.i.a.-cohen-prize-for-excellence-in-theoretical-computer-science, retrieved 2015-09-27 .