Neil Sloane

Neil Sloane
Neil Sloane

Neil Sloane in 1987
Born October 10, 1939 (1939-10-10) (age 72)
Beaumaris, Wales[1]
Residence New Jersey
Institutions Cornell University
AT&T Bell Laboratories
AT&T Labs
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Cornell University
Doctoral advisor Frederick Jelinek, Wolfgang Fuchs
Known for On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Notable awards Chauvenet Prize
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal

Neil James Alexander Sloane (born October 10, 1939) is a British-U.S. 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.[3]

He studied at Cornell University under Nick DeClaris, Frank Rosenblatt, Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967.[4] His doctoral dissertation was titled Lengths of Cycle Times in Random Neural Networks. Sloane joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1968. He became an AT&T Fellow in 1998. He is also an IEEE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

His Erdős number is 2, since he coauthored Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups with John Horton Conway. He has also collaborated with at least seven other Erdős coauthors. He is a winner of the Chauvenet Prize. In 2005 Sloane received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.[5]

Besides mathematics, he loves rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides to New Jersey.[6]

Selected publications

  • N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, NY, 1973.
  • F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane, The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1977.
  • M. Harwit and N. J. A. Sloane, Hadamard Transform Optics, Academic Press, San Diego CA, 1979.
  • N. J. A. Sloane and A. D. Wyner, editors, Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers, IEEE Press, NY, 1993.
  • N. J. A. Sloane and S. Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, San Diego, 1995.
  • J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups, Springer-Verlag, NY, 3rd ed., 1998.
  • A. S. Hedayat, N. J. A. Sloane and J. Stufken, Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1999.
  • G. Nebe, E. M. Rains and N. J. A. Sloane, Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory, Springer-Verlag, 2006.

See also

  • Reeds–Sloane algorithm

Notes

  1. ^ Roselle, David P. (1979). "Award of the Chauvenet Prize to Dr. Neil J. A. Sloane". American Mathematical Monthly 86 (2): 79. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2321940. Retrieved 2010-02-01. 
  2. ^ Sloane's home page "Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page". http://www.research.att.com/~njas/. Retrieved 15 January 2011. 
  3. ^ Contains information on over one hundred thousand integer sequences "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences". http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/. Retrieved 15 January 2011. 
  4. ^ Neil Sloane at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  5. ^ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pdf. Retrieved May 29, 2011 (2011-05-29). 
  6. ^ Sloane's webpage for the book "Rock Climbing New Jersey". http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/GUIDE00/. Retrieved 15 January 2011. 

External links

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