David M. Jackson

{{Short description|Canadian mathematician}}

{{Other people|David Jackson}}

{{BLP primary sources|biography|date=January 2008}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = David M. R. Jackson

| nationality = British, Canadian

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = University of Waterloo

| alma_mater = Cambridge University

| doctoral_advisor = Roger Needham

| doctoral_students = {{plainlist|

• Ian Goulden

}}

| awards = {{Plainlist|

• Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

}}

| website = {{URL|https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dmjackso/}}

}}

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.{{cite web | url=http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dmjackso/ | title=David M.R. Jackson - C.V. | publisher=University of Waterloo website}}

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.{{cite journal |last=Gessel |first=Ira | url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1985-12-02/S0273-0979-1985-15385-6/S0273-0979-1985-15385-6.pdf | title=Review: Ian P. Goulden and David M. Jackson, Combinatorial Enumeration |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |series=New Series |year=1985 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=297–301|doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-1985-15385-6 |doi-access=free}}{{cite journal | title=Combinatorial Enumeration by Ian P. Goulden and David M. Jackson | year=1984 | doi=10.1137/1026127 | journal=SIAM Review | volume=26 | issue=4 | page=599 | last1=Whitehead | first1=Earl Glen Jr. }}