Biography
Cook was born in Morgantown, West Virginia and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Illinois and the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program. In the 1980s Cook qualified as a member of the six-person US team to the International Mathematical Olympiad. In 1990, Cook went to work for Wolfram Research, makers of the computer algebra system Mathematica. He did his doctoral work in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech from 1999 to 2005.
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