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. 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 Graph theorists Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty 1953 births 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians