# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-cooley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:55:24.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-cooley"
name: "James Cooley"
slug: "james-cooley"
description: "James William Cooley was an American mathematician. Cooley received a B.A. degree in 1949 from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, an M.A. degree in 1951 from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a Ph.D. degree in 1961 in applied mathematics from Columbia University. He was a programmer on John von Neumann's computer at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, from 1953 to 1956, where he notably programmed the Blackman–Tukey transformation."
tagline: "American mathematician (1926-2016)"
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birthDate: "1926-09-18"
deathDate: "2016-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump