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W. Jack Cunningham, 86, professor emeritus and the former chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, died at his home in Hamden, Conn., on January 7, 2004, after an illness of several months.

A specialist in the areas of systems theory, nonlinear analysis, computation and acoustics, he taught at Yale from 1946 to 1988. He authored numerous papers and a textbook, “Introduction to Nonlinear Analysis,” which was used worldwide and translated into several languages. He was particularly devoted to the teaching of engineering and science, and became Yale engineering’s institutional memory. Upon retiring, he wrote a history “Engineering at Yale - 1932-1982,” published in 1992.

Cunningham was born on August 21, 1917, in Comanche, Texas, received his A.B. and A.M. degrees from the University of Texas and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard. During World War II he helped train military officers in radar theory.

The start of his career coincided with the great changes and advances in electronics and technology of the World War II era-radar, sonar and the atomic bomb. His teaching career encompassed the resulting major change in engineering education from an emphasis on practical construction, measurement and industrial administration to a growing emphasis on research and technical applications of electronics, atomic physics and automatic control.

Professor Cunningham worked primarily on the mathematical analysis of engineering and taught generations of students about ordinary and partial differential, and nonlinear differential equations.

“He preserved the connection between theory and reality which is the essence of engineering,” said Peter Schultheiss, emeritus professor of electrical engineering, who began his career at Yale in the same month as Cunningham. “He was famous among students as an outstanding teacher. Even when his lectures dealt with abstract-sounding topics in differential equations he

Royal Navy officer (1883–1963)

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Admiral of the FleetAndrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, OM, DSO & Two Bars (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a British officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He was widely known by his initials, "ABC".

Cunningham was born in Rathmines in the south side of Dublin on 7 January 1883. After starting his schooling in Dublin and Edinburgh, he enrolled at Stubbington House School, at the age of ten. He entered the Royal Navy in 1897 as a naval cadet in the officers' training ship Britannia, passing out in 1898. He commanded a destroyer during the First World War and through most of the interwar period. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and two Bars, for his performance during this time, specifically for his actions in the Dardanelles and in the Baltics.

In the Second World War, as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, Cunningham led British naval forces to victory in several critical Mediterranean naval battles. These included the attack on Taranto in 1940, the first completely all-aircraft naval attack in history, and the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941. Cunningham controlled the defence of the Mediterranean supply lines through Alexandria, Gibraltar, and the key chokepoint of Malta. He also directed naval support for the various major Allied landings in the Western Mediterranean littoral. In autumn 1943, on the death of the incumbent, Sir Dudley Pound, Cunningham was promoted to First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy, a position he held until his retirement in 1946. He was ennobled as Baron Cunningham of Hyndhope in 1945 and made Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope the following year. After his retirement, Cunningham enjoyed several ceremonial