Neil Sloane

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Neil James Alexander Sloane is a British-U.S. mathematician[1]. He studied at Cornell University under Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967 [2]. 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.

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] .

His Erdős number is 2, since he coauthored Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups with John Horton Conway. He's collaborated with at least seven other Erdős coauthors, too.
He is a winner of the Chauvenet Prize.

Besides mathematics, he loves mountain climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides to New Jersey [4].

[edit] Selected publications

  • Neil J. A. Sloane, John G. Thompson: Cyclic self-dual codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 29(3): 364-366 (1983)
  • N. J. A. Sloane, John G. Thompson: The Nonexistence of a Certain Steiner System. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 30(3): 209-236 (1981)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Sloane's home page Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page. Retrieved on 27 July, 2007.
  2. ^ Sloane's Mathematics Genealogy Project entryMathematics Genealogy Project : Neil Sloane. Retrieved on 27 July, 2007.
  3. ^ Contains information on over one hundred thousand integer sequences The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Retrieved on 27 July, 2007.
  4. ^ Sloane's webpage for the book Rock Climbing New Jersey. Retrieved on 27 July, 2007.

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