Jeff Dinitz

Jeffrey H. Dinitz (born 1952) is an American mathematician, currently teaching combinatorics at the University of Vermont. He is best known for proposing the Dinitz conjecture, which became a major theorem. Jeff Dinitz is married to Susan Dinitz and has three children, Mike, Amy, and Tom. Dinitz is also well-known for scheduling the first season of the now-defunct XFL football league. He and a colleague from the Czech Republic, Dalibor Froncek, o... more

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