Douglas West (mathematician)

Douglas West
Born 1953
Fields Mathematics (graph theory)
Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma mater Princeton University
Doctoral advisor Daniel Kleitman
Doctoral students Ed Scheinerman

Douglas Brent West is a professor of graph theory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978; his advisor was Daniel Kleitman.[1] He is the "W" in G. W. Peck, a pseudonym for a group of six mathematicians that includes West.[2] He is the editor of the journal Discrete Mathematics.

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References

  1. Douglas Brent West at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Peck, G. W. (2002), "Kleitman and combinatorics: a celebration", Discrete Mathematics 257 (2–3): 193–224, doi:10.1016/S0012-365X(02)00595-2, MR 1935723.

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