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{{short description|American computer scientist}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Daniel I. A. Cohen
| birth_date         = 1946
| nationality        = American
| occupation         = Mathematician, computer scientist, professor emeritus
| years_active       = 1967-present?
| employer           = Hunter College
}}

'''Daniel Isaac Aryeh Cohen''' (born 1946) is an American [[Biography:Mathematician|mathematician]] and [[Computer scientist|computer scientist]] who is now a [[Social:Professor emeritus|professor emeritus]] at Hunter College.<ref name="hunter-faculty">{{citation|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/csci/people/faculty|title=Faculty in Hunter's Computer Science Department|publisher=Hunter College|access-date=2015-09-27}}.</ref>

Cohen earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from [[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton University]] in 1967<ref name="hunter-faculty"/><ref>Graduation year from {{citation|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/01/18/sections/letters/6061/index.xml?|department=Letters to the editor|journal=Princeton Alumni Weekly|first=Daniel I. A.|last=Cohen|title=Holding the line on A's|date=January 18, 2012}}.</ref> and already as an undergraduate published a research paper about [[Sperner's lemma]], which he learned about from [[Biography:Hans Rademacher|Hans Rademacher]].<ref>{{citation
 | last = Cohen | first = Daniel I. A.
 | doi = 10.1016/s0021-9800(67)80062-0
 | issue = 4
 | journal = Journal of Combinatorial Theory
 | pages = 585–587
 | title = On the Sperner lemma
 | volume = 2
 | year = 1967| doi-access = free
 }}.</ref> He completed his doctorate in 1975 from [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]] under the joint supervision of [[Biography:Andrew M. Gleason|Andrew M. Gleason]] and [[Biography:Gian-Carlo Rota|Gian-Carlo Rota]].<ref>{{mathgenealogy|id=87438}}.</ref> 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.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/csci/about-cs/about-the-computer-science-program|title=CS Department History|publisher=Hunter College|access-date=2015-09-27}}.</ref>

Cohen is the author of the textbooks ''Basic Techniques of Combinatorial Theory'' (John Wiley & Sons, 1979)<ref>{{citation|department=Book Selection|title=Basic Techniques of Combinatorial Theory|journal=Journal of the Operational Research Society|year=1980|volume=31|page=85|doi=10.1057/jors.1980.16|first=Iain|last=Buchanan|s2cid=62587403}}.</ref> 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.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/csci/pressroom/news/ruth-hauptman-wins-inaugural-d.i.a.-cohen-prize-for-excellence-in-theoretical-computer-science|title=Ruth Hauptman wins inaugural Daniel I. A. Cohen Prize for Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science|publisher=Hunter College|access-date=2015-09-27}}.</ref>

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