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.

Selected work

Books

• Introduction to Graph Theory - Second edition, Douglas B. West. Published by Prentice Hall 1996, 2001. ISBN 0-13-014400-2
• Mathematical Thinking: Problem-Solving and Proofs Second edition, John P D'Angelo and Douglas West. Published by Prentice Hall 1999. ISBN 0-13-014412-6

Research work

• Spanning trees with many leaves, DJ Kleitman, DB West - SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 1991.
• Class of Solutions to the Gossip Problem, Part II, DB West - Discrete Mathematics, 1982.
• The interval number of a planar graph: three intervals suffice, ER Scheinerman, DB West - Journal of combinatorial theory. Series B, 1983.

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.

External links

• West's home page at UIUC