Neil Sloane
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Neil James Alexander Sloane is an Australian-U.S. mathematician. He studied at Cornell University under Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967. 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.
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.
[edit] External links
- Sloane's home page.
- On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Contains information on over one hundred thousand integer sequences.
- [1]. Sloane's entry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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