Douglas West (mathematician) explained

Douglas West
Birth Date:	1953
Fields:	Mathematics (graph theory)
Workplaces:	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. He is the "W" in G. W. Peck, a pseudonym for a group of six mathematicians that includes West.^[1] He is the editor of the journal Discrete Mathematics.

Selected work

Introduction to Graph Theory - Second edition, Douglas B. West. Published by Prentice Hall 1996, 2001.
Mathematical Thinking: Problem-Solving and Proofs Second edition, John P D'Angelo and Douglas West. Published by Prentice Hall 1999.

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.