Douglas West (mathematician)

{{short description|American mathematician}}

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| fields = Mathematics (graph theory)

| workplaces = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

| alma_mater = Princeton University

| doctoral_advisor = Daniel Kleitman

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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.{{MathGenealogy|id=4840|title=Douglas Brent West}} He is the "W" in G. W. Peck, a pseudonym for a group of six mathematicians that includes West.{{citation

| last = Peck | first = G. W.

| doi = 10.1016/S0012-365X(02)00595-2

| mr = 1935723

| issue = 2–3

| journal = Discrete Mathematics

| pages = 193–224

| title = Kleitman and combinatorics: a celebration

| volume = 257

| year = 2002| doi-access =

}}. He is the editor of the journal Discrete Mathematics.