Jeffrey Howard Dinitz, born in 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City, is an American mathematician who taught combinatorics at the University of Vermont. He is best known for proposing the Dinitz conjecture, which became a major theorem. His writing on combinatorial designs includes the CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs (1996) and its Second Edition (2006), both with Charles J. Colbourn, and Contemporary Design Theory: A Collection of Surveys (1992) with Douglas R. Stinson. He also became known outside mathematics for scheduling the first season of the XFL football league: with the Czech colleague Dalibor Froncek he drafted a complicated schedule that the new league gladly accepted. He is married to Susan Dinitz and has three children.
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In combinatorics, the Dinitz theorem, formerly known as the Dinitz conjecture, is a statement about the extension of arrays to partial Latin squares, proposed in 1979 by Jeff Dinitz, and proved in 1994 by Fred Galvin.
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