Neil James Alexander Sloane is a British-U.S. mathematician.[1] He studied at Cornell University under Nick DeClaris, Frank Rosenblatt, Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes 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. He is also an IEEE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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 rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides to New Jersey.[4]
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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
Notes
- ^ Sloane's home page "Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page". http://www.research.att.com/~njas/. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
- ^ Sloane's Mathematics Genealogy Project entry"Mathematics Genealogy Project : Neil Sloane". http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=80980. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
- ^ Contains information on over one hundred thousand integer sequences "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences". http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
- ^ Sloane's webpage for the book "Rock Climbing New Jersey". http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/GUIDE00/. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
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