Edward R. Scheinerman is an American

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, working in

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and

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. He is a professor of

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, and computer science at

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.Faculty profile
Johns Hopkins University, retrieved 2013-07-12. His contributions to mathematics include Scheinerman's conjecture, now proven, stating that every

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may be represented as an

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s. Scheinerman did his undergraduate studies at

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, graduating in 1980, and earned his Ph.D. in 1984 from

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under the supervision of Douglas B. West. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1984, and since 2000 he has been an administrator there, serving as department chair, associate dean, vice dean for education, vice dean for graduate education, and vice dean for faculty (effective September 2019). He is a two-time winner of the

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Lester R. Ford Award ''The American Mathematical Monthly'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics. It was established by Benjamin Finkel in 1894 and is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Mathematical Association of America. It is an expositor ...

for expository writing, in 1991 for his paper "Random intervals" with Joyce Justicz and Peter Winkler, and in 2001 for his paper "When Close is Close Enough". In 1992 he became a fellow of the

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, and in 2012 he became a fellow of the

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Selected publications

;Books *''Invitation to Dynamical Systems'' (Prentice Hall, 1996
reprinted by Dover Publications, 2012
. *''Fractional Graph Theory'' (With Daniel Ullman, Wiley, 1997

.Review of ''Fractional Graph Theory'', and . *
Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction
'' (Brooks/Cole, 2000

Cengage Learning, 2012).

(Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006). *'' ttps://books.google.com/books/about/The_Mathematics_Lover_s_Companion.html?id=XncsvgAACAAJ The Mathematics Lover's Companion: Masterpieces for Everyone' (Yale University Press, 2017). ;Papers *. *.

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