Neil Sloane | |
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 Neil Sloane in 1997 | |
| Born | October 10, 1939 |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne Cornell University |
| Known for | Sphere 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 |
| Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1979) Claude E. Shannon Award (1998) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Cornell University AT&T Bell Laboratories AT&T Labs |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Jelinek, Wolfgang Fuchs |
| Website | neilsloane |
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]
- ^ 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.