Mathematician:Neil James Alexander Sloane

Mathematician

British mathematician whose major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing.

Best known for being the creator and maintainer of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).

Nationality

British-American

History

• Born: October 10, 1939 in Beaumaris, Wales

Theorems and Definitions

• Reeds-Sloane Algorithm (with J.A. Reeds)

Publications

• 1973: The persistence of a number (J. Recreational Math. Vol. 6: pp. 97 – 98)

• 1995: The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (with Simon Plouffe)

• 1999: Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Groups, 3rd ed. (with J.H. Conway)

• On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)