David M.R. Jackson is a professor at the
University of Waterloo
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in the department of
combinatorics
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and
optimization
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. He graduated from
Cambridge University
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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
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Project.
He is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
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and a Member of the
Academy of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
With
Ian Goulden, Jackson published the book ''Combinatorial Enumeration''.
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List of University of Waterloo people
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
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