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Neil Sloane
Neil James Alexander Sloane (born October 10, 1939) is a
Neil Sloane
British-American mathematician.[2] 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).[3]

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.[4]

He studied at Cornell University under Nick DeClaris, Frank

Rosenblatt, Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Heinrich
Johannes Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967.[5] His doctoral Neil Sloane in 1997
dissertation was titled Lengths of Cycle Times in Random
Neural Networks. Sloane joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1968 and Born October 10, 1939
retired from AT&T Labs in 2012. He became an AT&T Fellow Beaumaris, Wales[1]
in 1998. He is also a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales,[6] Alma mater University of
an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Melbourne
Society,[7] and a member of the National Academy of Cornell University
Engineering.
Known for Sphere Packing,
He is a winner of a Lester R. Ford Award in 1978[8] and the Lattices and Groups
Chauvenet Prize in 1979. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of (with J. H. Conway),
the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[9] In The Theory of Error-
2005 Sloane received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Correcting Codes
Medal.[10] In 2008 he received the Mathematical Association (with F. J.
of America David P. Robbins Prize, and in 2013 the George MacWilliams), and the
Pólya Award. On-Line Encyclopedia
of Integer Sequences
In 2014, to celebrate his 75th birthday, Sloane shared some of
his favorite integer sequences.[11] Besides mathematics, he Awards Chauvenet Prize
loves rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing (1979)
guides to New Jersey.[12] Claude E. Shannon
Award (1998)
He regularly appears in videos for Brady Haran's Youtube
IEEE Richard W.
channel Numberphile.[13]
Hamming Medal
(2005)
Selected publications Scientific career

Neil James Alexander Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Institutions Cornell University

Sequences, Academic Press, NY, 1973. AT&T Bell
Florence Jessie MacWilliams and Neil James Alexander Laboratories
Sloane, The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes,

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Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1977. [14] AT&T Labs

Doctoral Frederick Jelinek,
[15]
advisor Wolfgang Fuchs

M. Harwit and Neil James Alexander Sloane, Hadamard Website neilsloane.com (http://
Transform Optics, Academic Press, San Diego CA, 1979. neilsloane.com)
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;[16] 2nd edn., 1993;[17] 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

References
1. Roselle, David P. (1979). "Award of the Chauvenet Prize to Dr. Neil J. A. Sloane". American
Mathematical Monthly. 86 (2): 79. doi:10.2307/2321940 (https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2321940).
JSTOR 2321940 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2321940).
2. Sloane's home page "Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page" (http://NeilSloane.com). Retrieved
June 2, 2012.
3. Contains information on over three hundred thousand integer sequences "The On-Line
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences" (http://oeis.org). Retrieved 10 October 2019.
4. "Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences" (https://www.theguardian.com/scienc
e/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2014/oct/07/neil-sloane-the-man-who-loved-only-integer-se
quences), The Guardian, October 7, 2014
5. Neil Sloane (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=80980) at the Mathematics Genealogy
Project
6. "Dr Neil Sloane" (https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/neil-sloane/). Fellows. Learned
Society of Wales. 2015. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
7. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-lis
t), retrieved 2013-07-20.
8. Sloane, Neil J. A. (1977). "Error correcting codes and invariant theory: new applications of a
19th century technique" (http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/error-corre
cting-codes-and-invariant-theory-new-applications-of-a-19th-century-technique). Amer. Math.
Monthly. 84 (2): 82–107. doi:10.2307/2319929 (https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2319929).
JSTOR 2319929 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2319929).
9. Sloane, N. J. A. (1998). "The sphere packing problem" (https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011595000).
Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 387–396.
10. "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (http://www.ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pd
f) (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved May 29, 2011.

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11. Bellos, Alex (7 October 2014). "Neil Sloane: the man who loved integer sequences" (https://ww
w.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2014/oct/07/neil-sloane-the-man-
who-loved-only-integer-sequences). The Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
12. Sloane's webpage for the book "Rock Climbing New Jersey" (http://neilsloane.com/doc/GUIDE
00/). Retrieved 6 December 2012.
13. Sloan, Neil; Haran, Brady. "Neil Sloane on Numberphile" (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list
=PLt5AfwLFPxWJXQqPe_llzWmTHMPb9QvV2). YouTube. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
14. MacWilliams, Florence Jessiem; Sloane, Neil James Alexander (2007) [1977]. Written at AT&T
Shannon Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey, USA. The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes. North-
Holland Mathematical Library. 16 (digital print of 12th impression, 1st ed.). Amsterdam /
London / New York / Tokyo: North-Holland / Elsevier BV. ISBN 978-0-444-85193-2.
LCCN 76-41296 (https://lccn.loc.gov/76-41296). (xxii+762+6 pages)
15. Pless, Vera (1978). "Review: The theory of error-correcting codes, I and II, by F. J.
MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (6): 1356–1359.
doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1978-14578-9 (https://doi.org/10.1090%2Fs0002-9904-1978-14578-
9).
16. Guy, Richard K. (1989). "Review: Sphere packings, lattices and groups, by J. H. Conway and
N. J. A. Sloane" (https://doi.org/10.1090%2Fs0273-0979-1989-15795-9). Bull. Amer. Math.
Soc. (N.S.). 21 (1): 142–147. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1989-15795-9 (https://doi.org/10.1090%
2Fs0273-0979-1989-15795-9).
17. Rogers, C. A. (1993). "Review: Sphere packings, lattices and groups, second ed., by J. H.
Conway and N. J. A. Sloane" (https://doi.org/10.1090%2Fs0273-0979-1993-00435-x). Bull.
Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 29 (2): 306–314. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1993-00435-x (https://doi.o
rg/10.1090%2Fs0273-0979-1993-00435-x).

External links
Neil Sloane (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=80980) at the Mathematics Genealogy
Project
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients, 2005 – Neil J. A. Sloane (http://www.ieee.org/ab
out/awards/bios/hamming_recipients.html#sect6)
Neil Sloane's entry in the Numericana Hall of Fame (http://www.numericana.com/fame/index.ht
m#sloane)
"The pattern collector" (http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/61870/title/Math_Trek__Th
e_pattern_collector), Science News
Doron Zeilberger, Opinion 124: A Database is Worth a Thousand Mathematical Articles (http://
www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion124.html)
Confessions of a Sequence Addict (https://oeis.org/A195264/a195264.pdf): Neil Sloane

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