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British-American mathematician
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]
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 dissertation was titled Lengths of Cycle Times in
Random Neural Networks . Sloane joined
AT&T Bell Labs in 1968 and retired from
AT&T Labs in 2012. He became an AT&T
Fellow in 1998. He is also a
Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales ,
[6] an
IEEE Fellow , a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society ,
[7] and a member of the
National Academy of Engineering .
He is a winner of a
Lester R. Ford Award in 1978
[8] and the
Chauvenet Prize in 1979.
[8] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the
International Congress of Mathematicians in
Berlin .
[9] In 2005 Sloane received the
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal .
[10]
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.
[11] Besides mathematics, he loves
rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides to
New Jersey .
[12]
He regularly appears in videos for
Brady Haran 's YouTube channel
Numberphile .
[13]
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.
[14]
[15]
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;
[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
References
^
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 " . Retrieved June 2, 2012 .
^ Contains information on over three hundred thousand
integer sequences
"The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences " . Retrieved 10 October 2019 .
^
"Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences" , The Guardian , October 7, 2014
^
Neil Sloane at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
^
"Dr Neil Sloane" . Fellows .
Learned Society of Wales . 2015. Retrieved 2017-10-16 .
^
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 . Retrieved May 29, 2011 .
^ Bellos, Alex (7 October 2014).
"Neil Sloane: the man who loved integer sequences" . The Guardian . Retrieved 10 December 2016 .
^ Sloane's webpage for the book
"Rock Climbing New Jersey " . Retrieved 6 December 2012 .
^ Sloan, Neil; Haran, Brady.
"Neil Sloane on Numberphile" . YouTube. Retrieved 16 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 . (xxii+762+6 pages)
^
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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