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Neil Sloane

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Neil Sloane
Neil Sloane in 1997
Born(1939-10-10)October 10, 1939(age 84)
Beaumaris,Wales[1]
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 theOn-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

Neil James Alexander SloaneFLSW(born October 10, 1939) is a British-Americanmathematician.[2]His major contributions are in the fields ofcombinatorics,error-correcting codes,andsphere packing.Sloane is best known for being the creator and maintainer of theOn-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences(OEIS).[3]

Biography

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Sloane was born inBeaumaris, Anglesey,Wales,in 1939, moving toCowes,Isle of Wight,Englandin 1946. The family emigrated toAustralia,arriving at the start of 1949. Sloane then moved fromMelbourneto theUnited Statesin 1961.[4]

He studied atCornell Universityunder Nick DeClaris,Frank Rosenblatt,Frederick JelinekandWolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs,receiving his Ph.D. in 1967.[5]His doctoral dissertation was titledLengths of Cycle Times inRandom Neural Networks.Sloane joinedBell Labsin 1968 and retired from its successorAT&T Labsin 2012. He became an AT&TFellowin 1998. He is also aFellow of the Learned Society of Wales,[6]anIEEE Fellow,a Fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society,[7]and a member of theNational Academy of Engineering.

He is a winner of aLester R. Ford Awardin 1978[8]and theChauvenet Prizein 1979.[8]In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of theInternational Congress of MathematiciansinBerlin.[9]In 2005 Sloane received theIEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.[10] In 2008 he received theMathematical Association of AmericaDavid 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]Besides mathematics, he lovesrock climbingand has authored two rock-climbing guides toNew Jersey.[12]

He regularly appears in videos forBrady Haran's YouTube channelNumberphile.[13]

Selected publications

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  • Neil James Alexander Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, NY, 1973.
  • Florence Jessie MacWilliamsand 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. Conwayand 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

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References

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  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.JSTOR2321940.
  2. ^Sloane's home page"Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page".RetrievedJune 2,2012.
  3. ^Contains information on over three hundred thousandinteger sequences"The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences".Retrieved10 October2019.
  4. ^"Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences",The Guardian,October 7, 2014
  5. ^Neil Sloaneat theMathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^"Dr Neil Sloane".Fellows.Learned Society of Wales.2015.Retrieved2017-10-16.
  7. ^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society,retrieved 2013-07-20.
  8. ^abSloane, 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.JSTOR2319929.
  9. ^Sloane, N. J. A. (1998)."The sphere packing problem".Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III.pp. 387–396.
  10. ^"IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients"(PDF).IEEE.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on June 20, 2010.RetrievedMay 29,2011.
  11. ^Bellos, Alex (7 October 2014)."Neil Sloane: the man who loved integer sequences".The Guardian.Retrieved10 December2016.
  12. ^Sloane's webpage for the book"Rock Climbing New Jersey".Retrieved6 December2012.
  13. ^Sloan, Neil; Haran, Brady."Neil Sloane on Numberphile".YouTube.Retrieved16 May2019.
  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. Vol. 16 (digital print of 12th impression, 1st ed.). Amsterdam / London / New York / Tokyo:North-Holland/Elsevier BV.ISBN978-0-444-85193-2.LCCN76-41296.(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.
  16. ^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.
  17. ^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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