Douglas West | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.