# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-j-cook
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:55:51.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-j-cook"
name: "William J. Cook"
slug: "william-j-cook"
description: "William John Cook is an American operations researcher and mathematician, and Professor of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Cook.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476206666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Cook (Mathematiker)"
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    title: "ويليام جاى كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cook"
    title: "William Cook"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Cook"
    title: "William J. Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Cook"
    title: "William J. Cook"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578302"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump