Julian D. Cole (1925–1999), Volume 47, Number 4

466 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 47, NUMBER 4 The applied mathematics community suffered a great loss with the death of one of its leaders, Julian D. Cole, on April 17, 1999, at the age of 74. Julian was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 2, 1925. He received his B.S. in engineering from Cornell and his Ph.D. from Caltech, where he worked with Hans Liepmann. During his career he was a faculty member at Caltech, scientific liaison officer in London for the Office of Naval Research, a faculty scholar at Boeing, a faculty member and department chair at UCLA, and a chaired professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received many awards for excellence throughout his career, including election to membership in the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences simultaneously in 1976. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among other awards he received the von Karman Prize (SIAM), the Award for Meritorious Civilian Service (Air Force), the Fluid Dynamics Award (AIAA), and the National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis. Julian will be best remembered professionally for his seminal research and his books: Perturbation Methods in Applied Mathematics (1968, followed by revisions in 1981 and 1996); Multiple Scale and Singular Perturbation Methods (1996, with Kevorkian), Transonic Aerodynamics (1986, with Cook), and Similarity Methods for Differential Equations (1974, with Bluman). His professional career has been reviewed in some detail by Marshall Tulin as “Julian David Cole—A Scientific Biography” in Mathematics Is for Solving Problems (SIAM, 1996). This is a must read for any aspiring applied mathematician and for any devotee of Julian. It surveys the development and the significance of Julian’s work, creating a profile of a career. It summarizes: