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.. He is the editor of the journal Discrete Mathematics.
Selected work
Books 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. Combinatorial Mathematics Douglas B. West. Published by Cambridge University Press 2020.
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.
See also Erdős–Gallai theorem Necklace splitting problem
References
External links West's home page at UIUC