Fact Sheet: Neil James Alexander Sloane                Nov 2, 2026

Summary: World-renowned mathematicians. Leading expert on combinatorics, number theory, sequence, sphere packing, error-correcting codes, design of experiments. 
Email njasloane@gmail.com, Home page: https://NeilSloane.com/.

Chairman, OEIS Foundation Inc.; Visiting Scholar, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Has a Wikipedia page.

Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1967;  Asst. Professor, Elect. Engin. Dept., Cornell Univ., 1967-1969; Bell Labs and AT&T Labs-Research, 1969-2012.

11 books, 400+ publications, 137 coauthors, 65 videos on YouTube, esp. NumberPhile, 12.7 million views.  H-Index 100, 83,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Founded what is now the OnLine Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (the OEIS) in 1964, where he is now Chairman. The OEIS is called one of the most useful mathematical sites on the Web, receives millions of visits per day, and has been cited 13,000 times in the scientific literature.
 
Member National Academy of Engineering; Fellow Learned Society of Wales; Inaugural Fellow, Amer. Math. Soc.; AT&T Fellow; IEEE Fellow. 

Chauvenet Prize, Math. Assos. Amer.; IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal; Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998; Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecturer, Math. Assoc. Amer.; IEEE Information Theory Society Shannon Lecturer; David R. Robbins Prize, Math Assoc. Amer.; etc.

The Sloane-Hardin Design of Experiments program "Gosset" (http://NeilSloane.com/gosset/) was widely used in industry in the 1990s and 2000s.

Has boon the subject of major articles in New York Times in 1987, 2023, and 2026. Recent articles: "On Dissecting Polygons into Rectangles" (with Gavin Theobald), 2023; "Cutting a Pancake with an Exotic Knife" (With David O. H. Cutler and Jonas Karlsson), April 2026.  Most recent videos on YouTube: "Red and Black Knights (Extraordinary Result)", May 2026, 340K views; "The Immortal Kangaroo Sequence", 355K views, Sep 2026.

Born Oct 10 1938, Beaumaris, Wales, UK (Age 87). Former runner and rock climber, author of two rock climbing guides to NJ.