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Neil Sloane

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Neil Sloane is the 944th most popular mathematician (up from 945th in 2024), the 5,567th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,642nd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Neil Sloane ranks 944 out of 1,004. Before him are Krystyna Kuperberg, Nikolai Durov, Peter Sarnak, Christopher Zeeman, W. T. Tutte, and Ormond Stone. After him are Cleve Moler, Norman Johnson, Edward Charles Titchmarsh, James Maynard, Nigel Hitchin, and Alexander Aitken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Neil Sloane ranks 588. Before him are Subramanian Swamy, Richard Zare, Carole Shelley, Viktor Shustikov, Marit Paulsen, and Terry Paine. After him are David Hobbs, Sonny Fortune, Odd Børre, Brian Jacques, Cleve Moler, and Nur Misuari.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Neil Sloane ranks 5,569 out of 8,785. Before him are John Aldridge (1958), Ted Burgin (1927), Malcolm Gladwell (1963), Neville Southall (1958), Michaela Coel (1987), and Tulisa (1988). After him are E. B. Ford (1901), Stuart Baird (1947), Alan Pardew (1961), David Hobbs (1939), Justin Fashanu (1961), and Steve Rothery (1959).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Neil Sloane ranks 102. Before him are Philip Hall (1904), William Spottiswoode (1825), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765), and W. T. Tutte (1917). After him are Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), James Maynard (1987), Nigel Hitchin (1946), Stuart Milner-Barry (1906), Charles Hutton (1737), and Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912).

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