G. W. Peck

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This article is about the fictional mathematician. For other people named G. W. Peck, see G. W. Peck (disambiguation).

G. W. Peck is a fictional mathematician who is listed as author or co-author of a number of published academic papers. He is sometimes humorously identified with George Wilbur Peck, a former governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.[1][2]

Peck first appeared as the official author of a 1979 paper entitled "Maximum antichains of rectangular arrays"[3] The name "G. W. Peck" is derived from the initials of the actual writers of this paper: Ronald Graham, Douglas West, George B Purdy, Paul Erdős, Fan Chung, and Daniel Kleitman. Since then, Peck's name has appeared on some sixteen publications[4], primarily as a pseudonym of Daniel Kleitman.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ G. W. Peck, Kleitman and combinatorics: a celebration, Discrete Mathematics vol. 257 (2002), no. 2-3, pp. 193-224.
  2. ^ Jerrold W. Grossman, Review of "Kleitman and combinatorics: a celebration" by G. W. Peck, Math Reviews, September 2003.
  3. ^ G. W. Peck, Maximum antichains of rectangular arrays, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A vol. 27 (1979), no. 3, pp. 397-400.
  4. ^ American Mathematical Society MathSciNet (subscription required)
  5. ^ G. W. Peck, Kleitman and combinatorics: a celebration, Discrete Mathematics vol. 257 (2002), no. 2-3, pp. 193-224.