Neil Sloane

Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician.<ref>Sloane's home page {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the creator and maintainer of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).<ref>Contains information on over three hundred thousand integer sequences {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Biography

Sloane was born in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales, in 1939, moving to Cowes, Isle of Wight, England in 1946. The family emigrated to Australia, arriving at the start of 1949. Sloane then moved from Melbourne to the United States in 1961.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

He studied at Cornell University under Nick DeClaris, Frank Rosenblatt, Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967.<ref>Template:MathGenealogy</ref> His doctoral dissertation was titled Lengths of Cycle Times in Random Neural Networks. Sloane joined Bell Labs in 1968 and retired from its successor AT&T Labs in 2012. He became an AT&T Fellow in 1998. He is also a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society,<ref>List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-20.</ref> and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

He is a winner of a Lester R. Ford Award in 1978<ref name="19thCentury">Template:Cite journal</ref> and the Chauvenet Prize in 1979.<ref name="19thCentury"/> In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 2005 Sloane received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2008 he received the Mathematical Association of America David P. Robbins Prize, and in 2013 the George Pólya Award.

In 2014, to celebrate his 75th birthday, Sloane shared some of his favorite integer sequences.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Besides mathematics, he loves rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides to New Jersey.<ref>Sloane's webpage for the book {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He regularly appears in videos for Brady Haran's YouTube channel Numberphile.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Selected publications

• Neil James Alexander Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, NY, 1973.
• Florence Jessie MacWilliams and Neil James Alexander Sloane, The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1977.<ref name="MacWilliams-Sloane_1977">Template:Cite book (xxii+762+6 pages)</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• M. Harwit and Neil James Alexander Sloane, Hadamard Transform Optics, Academic Press, San Diego CA, 1979.
• Neil James Alexander Sloane and A. D. Wyner, editors, Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers, IEEE Press, NY, 1993.
• Neil James Alexander Sloane and S. Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, San Diego, 1995.
• J. H. Conway and Neil James Alexander Sloane, Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1st edn., 1988;<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> 2nd edn., 1993;<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> 3rd ed., 1998.
• A. S. Hedayat, Neil James Alexander Sloane and J. Stufken, Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1999.
• G. Nebe, E. M. Rains and Neil James Alexander Sloane, Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory, Springer-Verlag, 2006.

See also

• Reeds–Sloane algorithm
• Sloane's gap

External links

• Template:MathGenealogy
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients, 2005 – Neil J. A. Sloane
• Neil Sloane's entry in the Numericana Hall of Fame
• "The pattern collector", Science News
• Doron Zeilberger, Opinion 124: A Database is Worth a Thousand Mathematical Articles
• Confessions of a Sequence Addict: Neil Sloane