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American mathematician
Julian David Cole
(April 2, 1925 ? April 17, 1999) was an American mathematician. He is known for his groundbreaking work in mathematical applications to aerodynamics and transonic flow, and in non-linear equations more generally. He graduated 36 PhD students and won many of the most significant scientific honors over his career, including simultaneous election to the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
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Cole earned an undergraduate degree in engineering from
Cornell
, after which he entered
Caltech
as a graduate student. He worked with
Hans Liepmann
and
Paco Lagerstrom
, the latter his advisor, submitting a dissertation on transonic flow in 1949. Lagerstrom and Cole continued their work, having formed a small research group at
GALCIT
to better understand the mathematics of fluid flow. These two, along with
Leon Trilling
found that flows having weak shocks could be described by
Burgers' equation
, for which Cole later found a clever transformation to solve it.
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Cole continued to delve deeper into this topic for the next decade.
Cole took sabbatical in 1963?1964 at
Harvard
, where he wrote a book on this body of work:
Perturbation Methods in Applied Mathematics
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Cole is the namesake of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
's
Julian Cole Lectureship
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Awards
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References
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Bluman, G.
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Julian D. Cole
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Notices of the American Mathematical Society
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Cook, P., Tulin, M. and Flaherty, J. (1999)
Obituaries: Julian Cole
Archived
2017-01-06 at the
Wayback Machine
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Kevorkian, J. and Cole, J.D. (1981)
Perturbation Methods in Applied Mathematics
, Springer-Verlag, 2nd Ed.
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