Background
Sloane was born in Wales and brought up in Australia.
Sloane was born in Wales and brought up in Australia.
He studied at Cornell University, New York state, under Nick DeClaris, Frank Rosenblatt, Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 1967.
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-Lincolnshire Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. His doctoral dissertation was titled Lengths of Cycle Times in Random Neural Networks.
Sloane joined American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Labs in 1968 and retired from American Telephone & Telegraph Company Labs in 2012.
He became an American Telephone & Telegraph Company Fellow in 1998. Besides mathematics, he loves rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides to New Jersey.
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He is also a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.