Neil Sloane
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Neil Sloane in 1997
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Born | Beaumaris, Wales[1] |
October 10, 1939
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 | 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 |
Notable awards | Chauvenet Prize (1979) Claude E. Shannon Award (1998) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2005) |
Website neilsloane |
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]
Biography
Sloane was born in Wales and brought up in Australia.[4]
He studied at Cornell University, New York state, 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, an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society,[6] and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
He is a winner of a Lester R. Ford Award in 1978[7] and the Chauvenet Prize in 1979. In 2005 Sloane received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.[8] In 2008 he received the Mathematical Association of America David P. Robbins award.
Besides mathematics, he loves rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides to New Jersey.[9]
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.[10]
- 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, 1st edn., 1988;[11] 2nd edn., 1993;[12] 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
Notes
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External links
- Neil Sloane at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients, 2005 – Neil J. A. Sloane
- Neil Sloane's entry in the Numericana Hall of Fame
- "The pattern collector", Science News
- Doron Zeilberger, Opinion 124: A Database is Worth a Thousand Mathematical Articles
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- ↑ The Guardian, Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences, October 7, 2014.
- ↑ Neil Sloane at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-20.
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- Living people
- Scientists at Bell Labs
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Cornell University alumni
- University of Melbourne alumni
- Fellow Members of the IEEE