NEIL SLOANE

'Neil James Alexander Sloane' is an Australian-U.S. mathematician^[1]. He studied at Cornell University under Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967 ^[2]. His doctoral dissertation was titled ''Lengths of cycle times in random neural networks''. Sloane joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1968. He became an AT&T Fellow in 1998.
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 ^[3] .
His Erdős number is 2, since he coauthored ''Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups'' with John Horton Conway. He's collaborated with at least seven other Erdős coauthors, too.
Besides mathematics, he loves mountain climbing and has even authored a book on rock-climbing titled ''Rock Climbing New Jersey'' ^[4].

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1. Sloane's home page ''Neil J. A. Sloane: Home Page''
2. Sloane's Mathematics Genealogy Project entry ''Mathematics Genealogy Project : Neil Sloane''
3. Contains information on over one hundred thousand integer sequences ''The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences''
4. Sloane's webpage for the book ''Rock Climbing New Jersey''