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Julian D. Cole
Pages 54-59

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... 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 the University of California at Los Angeles, and a chaired professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was a fellow of the Arnerican Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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... , Cole actually foresaw the possibility of shock-free transonic airfoils, in whose development he was later to play a major role. The practical development of transonic wings for advanced transport aircraft, based on this idea, eventually depended on the availability of a suitable calculating method.
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... . The methods developed in these books have found application to nonlinear problems throughout engineering and have provided inspiration and a springboard for a whole generation of engineers faced with the analysis of nonlinear problems in all fields.
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... students may be found in the book Mathematics Is for Solving Problems (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1996) which was published on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
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