Neil Sloane

Neil Sloane
Neil Sloane in 1997
Born (1939-10-10) October 10, 1939 (age 85)
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Cornell University
Known forSphere Packing, Lattices and Groups (with J. H. Conway), The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes (with F. J. MacWilliams), and the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
AwardsChauvenet Prize (1979)
Claude E. Shannon Award (1998)
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2005)
Scientific career
InstitutionsCornell University
AT&T Bell Laboratories
AT&T Labs
Doctoral advisorFrederick Jelinek, Wolfgang Fuchs
Websiteneilsloane.com

Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a 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]

  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. JSTOR 2321940.
  2. ^ Sloane's home page "Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page". Retrieved June 2, 2012.
  3. ^ Contains information on over three hundred thousand integer sequences "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences". Retrieved 10 October 2019.

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