Neil Sloane
Neil Sloane | |
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Neil Sloane in 1997 | |
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
- ↑ Roselle, David P. (1979). "Award of the Chauvenet Prize to Dr. Neil J. A. Sloane". American Mathematical Monthly. 86 (2): 79. doi:10.2307/2321940. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- ↑ Sloane's home page "Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page". Retrieved June 2, 2012.
- ↑ Contains information on over two hundred thousand integer sequences "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences". Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Sloane, Neil J. A. (1977). "Error correcting codes and invariant theory: new applications of a 19th century technique". Amer. Math. Monthly. 84: 82–107. doi:10.2307/2319929.
- ↑ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ↑ Sloane's webpage for the book "Rock Climbing New Jersey". Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ↑ Pless, Vera (1978). "Review: The theory of error-correcting codes, I and II, by F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (6): 1356–1359. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1978-14578-9.
- ↑ Guy, Richard K. (1989). "Review: Sphere packings, lattices and groups, by J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 21 (1): 142–147. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1989-15795-9.
- ↑ Rogers, C. A. (1993). "Review: Sphere packings, lattices and groups, second ed., by J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 29 (2): 306–314. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1993-00435-x.
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