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Douglas West (mathematician)

American mathematician (born 1953) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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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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
  • Combinatorial Mathematics Douglas B. West. Published by Cambridge University Press 2020. ISBN 1-107-05858-9

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.
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