David M. Jackson Explained

David M. R. Jackson
Nationality:	British, Canadian
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	University of Waterloo
Alma Mater:	Cambridge University
Doctoral Advisor:	Roger Needham
Doctoral Students:	Ian Goulden

David M.R. Jackson is a professor at the University of Waterloo in the department of combinatorics and optimization. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1969. Jackson has been responsible for many developments in enumerative combinatorics in his career, as well as being a mathematical consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary Project.^[1]

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the Academy of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

With Ian Goulden, Jackson published the book Combinatorial Enumeration.^{[2] [3]}

Selected publications

• Book: Goulden . I. P. . Ian Goulden . Jackson . D. M. . 2004 . Combinatorial Enumeration . 0486435970.
• Goulden . I. P. . Ian Goulden . Jackson . David M. . Vakil . R. . Ravi Vakil . Towards the Geometry of Double Hurwitz Numbers . . 198 . 2005 . 43–92 . 10.1016/j.aim.2005.01.008 . free . math/0309440 . 8872816 .
• Goulden . I. P. . Ian Goulden . Jackson . D. M. . Vainshtein . A . The number of ramified coverings of the sphere by the torus and surfaces of higher genera . . 4 . 2000 . 27–46 . 10.1007/PL00001274 . math/9902125 . 16725623 .
• Goulden . I. P. . Ian Goulden . Jackson . D. M. . Transitive factorisations into transpositions and holomorphic mappings on the sphere . . 125 . 1997 . 1 . 381–436 . 2161793.

See also

• List of University of Waterloo people

Notes and References

1. Web site: David M.R. Jackson - C.V. . University of Waterloo website.
2. Gessel . Ira . Review: Ian P. Goulden and David M. Jackson, Combinatorial Enumeration . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . New Series . 1985 . 12 . 2 . 297–301. 10.1090/S0273-0979-1985-15385-6 . free.
3. Combinatorial Enumeration by Ian P. Goulden and David M. Jackson . 1984 . 10.1137/1026127 . SIAM Review . 26 . 4 . 599 . Whitehead . Earl Glen Jr. .