British-American mathematician
Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-Americanmathematician .[ 2] combinatorics ,error-correcting codes , andsphere packing . Sloane is best known for being the creator and maintainer of theOn-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).[ 3]
Sloane was born inBeaumaris, Anglesey ,Wales , in 1939, moving toCowes ,Isle of Wight ,England in 1946. The family emigrated toAustralia , arriving at the start of 1949. Sloane then moved fromMelbourne to theUnited States in 1961.[ 4]
He studied atCornell University under Nick DeClaris,Frank Rosenblatt ,Frederick Jelinek andWolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs , receiving his Ph.D. in 1967.[ 5] Lengths of Cycle Times inRandom Neural Networks . Sloane joinedBell Labs in 1968 and retired from its successorAT&T Labs in 2012. He became an AT&TFellow in 1998. He is also aFellow of the Learned Society of Wales ,[ 6] IEEE Fellow , a Fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society ,[ 7] National Academy of Engineering .
He is a winner of aLester R. Ford Award in 1978[ 8] Chauvenet Prize in 1979.[ 8] International Congress of Mathematicians inBerlin .[ 9] IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal .[ 10] Mathematical Association of America David P. Robbins Prize , and in 2013 theGeorge Pólya Award .
In 2014, to celebrate his 75th birthday, Sloane shared some of his favorite integer sequences.[ 11] rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides toNew Jersey .[ 12]
He regularly appears in videos forBrady Haran 's YouTube channelNumberphile .[ 13]
Selected publications [ edit ] 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.[ 14] [ 15] M. Harwit and Neil James Alexander Sloane, Hadamard Transform Optics, Academic Press, San Diego CA, 1979. Neil James Alexander Sloane andA. D. Wyner , editors,Claude Elwood Shannon : Collected Papers, IEEE Press, NY, 1993. Neil James Alexander Sloane andS. 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] [ 17] 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.^ 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 .^ Sloane's home page"Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page " . RetrievedJune 2, 2012 . ^ Contains information on over three hundred thousandinteger sequences "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences " . Retrieved10 October 2019 . ^ "Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences" ,The Guardian , October 7, 2014^ Neil Sloane at theMathematics Genealogy Project ^ "Dr Neil Sloane" .Fellows .Learned Society of Wales . 2015. Retrieved2017-10-16 .^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2013-07-20.^a b Sloane, Neil J. A. (1977)."Error correcting codes and invariant theory: new applications of a 19th century technique" .Amer. Math. Monthly .84 (2):82– 107.doi :10.2307/2319929 .JSTOR 2319929 . ^ Sloane, N. J. A. (1998)."The sphere packing problem" .Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III . pp. 387– 396. ^ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF) .IEEE . Archived fromthe original (PDF) on June 20, 2010. RetrievedMay 29, 2011 .^ Bellos, Alex (7 October 2014)."Neil Sloane: the man who loved integer sequences" .The Guardian . Retrieved10 December 2016 . ^ Sloane's webpage for the book"Rock Climbing New Jersey " . Retrieved6 December 2012 . ^ Sloan, Neil; Haran, Brady."Neil Sloane on Numberphile" . YouTube. Retrieved16 May 2019 . ^ 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. Vol. 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 .^ 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 ^ Guy, Richard K. (1989)."Review:Sphere packings, lattices and groups , by J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane" .Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) .21 (1):142– 147.doi :10.1090/s0273-0979-1989-15795-9 ^ Rogers, C. A. (1993)."Review:Sphere packings, lattices and groups , second ed., by J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane" .Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) .29 (2):306– 314.doi :10.1090/s0273-0979-1993-00435-x
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