Neil Sloane
Neil Sloane | |
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Neil Sloane in 1997 | |
| Born | October 10, 1939 Beaumaris, Wales |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne Cornell University |
| 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 |
| Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1979) Claude E. Shannon Award (1998) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Cornell University AT&T Bell Laboratories AT&T Labs |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Jelinek, Wolfgang Fuchs |
| Website | neilsloane |
Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician. 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 (OEIS).