Neil Sloane

British mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1939 · age 87

Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW 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).

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2015Fellow of the Learned Society of WalesAward2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward2008David P. Robbins PrizeAward2005IEEE Richard W. Hamming MedalAward1998Claude E. Shannon AwardAward1979Chauvenet PrizeAward1978IEEE FellowAwardPaul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford AwardsAward1939Born10 October 1939

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