Name: Neil James Alexander Sloane

Born: October 10, 1939, in Beaumaris, Wales

  • British-U.S. mathematician who has major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing.
  • Creator and maintainer of the OEIS (On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences).

Significant publications

  • Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory (2006).
  • Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications (1999).
  • Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Groups (1998).
  • The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (1995).
  • A Handbook of Integer Sequences (1973).

Honors and awards

  • Chauvenet Prize (1979).
  • IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2005).
  • Claude E. Shannon Award (1998).