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.
Douglas West | |
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| Born | 1953 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics (graph theory) |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Kleitman |
| Doctoral students | Ed Scheinerman |
Selected work
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edit- 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
edit- 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.
See also
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edit- ^ Douglas Brent West at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 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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