N. J. A. Sloane: Videos (2), Other Videos and Slides of Talks
Each of the following talks contains some new and fascinating unsolved problems, most
of which are still unsolved today.
See the Winter Fruits talk for example.
The most recent talks are listed first.
For the Youtube/Numberphile videos I made with Brady Haran see
here
Neil Sloane, October 12 2026
N. J. A. Sloane,
Highlights from the First 400,000 Sequences in the OEIS,
Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Sep 10 2025:
Youtube,
Vimeo video,
Slides,
Another copy of slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
Interesting Unsolved Integer Sequences,
REU Seminar at Rutgers University, June 11 2026.
Slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
Cutting a Pancake With an Exotic Knife,
Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Sep 11 2025:
Youtube,
Vimeo video,
Slides,
Another copy of slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
In the Footsteps of Heraclitus,
REU Seminar at Rutgers University, June 24 2025.
Slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
Eric Angelini's Greatest Sequences,
Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Dec 19, 2024:
Youtube,
Vimeo video,
Slides,
Another copy of slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
A Nasty Surprise in a Sequence and Other OEIS Stories,
Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Oct 10, 2024 (my 85th b'day):
Youtube,
Vimeo video,
[The talk begins after about 60 seconds of confusion.]
Slides,
Another copy of slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
The Reluctance of a Sequence,
Guest Lecture, Math 640, Rutgers, May 2 2024
Slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
Eric Angelini's Comma Sequence,
Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, January 18, 2024:
Youtube,
Vimeo video,
Slides,
Another copy of slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
New Sequence Problems and Solutions from 2022, Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Sept. 15, 2022; Youtube video, Slides
N. J. A. Sloane,
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: An illustrated guide with many unsolved problems,
Guest Lecture given in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Mathematics Math640 Class, Rutgers University, Spring Semester, Apr 28 2022:
Video,
Slides.
N. J. A. Sloane,
Lovely New Problems From the Past Months, Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Sept. 9, 2021; Video, Slides
Exciting Number Sequences, Video of invited talk for Rutgers Day 2021, Rutgers University, April 2021.
N. J. A. Sloane (in collaboration with Scott R. Shannon),
Art and Sequences, Slides of Guest lecture in Math 640, Rutgers Univ., Feb 8, 2020.
N. J. A. Sloane, Old and New Problems from 55 Years of the OEIS. Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, October 10 2019; Video,
Slides [These slides include some that I did not have time to show in the talk, along with updates to some that I did show.]
N. J. A. Sloane, Coordination Sequences, Planing Numbers, and Other Recent Sequences. Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Jan 31 2019; Part 1, Part 2, Slides.
N. J. A. Sloane, Three (No, 8) Lovely Problems from the OEIS, Experimental Mathematics Seminar, Rutgers University, Oct 05 2017, Part I, Part 2, Slides.
N. J. A. Sloane, Winter Fruits: New Problems from the OEIS, Dec. 2016 - Jan. 2017. Talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Jan 26 2017: Part 1, Part 2, Slides [Slides 15, 21, 22 have been changed since the talk]
N. J. A. Sloane, The OEIS, Mathematical Discovery, and Insomnia, Slides of plenary talk presented at Computational Discovery in Mathematics, Western University, London, Ontario, May 12-16, 2016.
N. J. A. Sloane, Open Problems in the OEIS, Slides of Guest Lecture given in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Mathematics Class, Rutgers University, May 2, 2016.
N. J. A. Sloane, Unsolved Number Theory Sequences from Alekseyev, Meiburg, Resta, van der Poorten, and Pablo Picasso, Video of talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Sep 24 2015: Part 1, Part 2
N. J. A. Sloane, On the No. of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, Video of talk in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Feb. 5 2015:
Part 1, Part 2
Video interview of me by Marc Chamberland at the Joint Math Meetings in San Antoio, Texas, Jan. 2015.
The OEIS Today: The Major Problems, Video of plenary talk at DIMACS Conference on Challenges of Identifying Integer Sequences, Rutgers University, Oct. 9-10 2014, to celebrate the 50th birthday of the OEIS, reaching 250,000 sequences, and my 75th birthday.
Error-Correcting Codes, Group Theory, and Invariant Theory . Video of talk I gave in the Graduate Student Seminar Series at Rutgers University, Apr 21, 2014:
Part 1,
Part 2.
Thanks to Matthew Russell for for an excellent job of videotaping.
2178 And All That . Video of talk I gave in Doron Zeilberger's
Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Oct. 10 2013:
Part 1,
Part 2.
Thanks to Matthew Russell for an excellent job of videotaping.
N. J. A. Sloane,
On Curling Numbers of Integer Sequences, Slides of talk presented at Combinatorics
on Words Conference, Fields Institute, Toronto, April 22, 2013.
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: The First Hundred Years. Video of talk I gave in Doron Zeilberger's Experimental Math Seminar at Rutgers University, Feb. 7, 2013. It is on YouTube. There were two cameras recording it, and each video is in two parts, so there are four videos—take your pick!
VIDEO 1: Part 1, Part 2;
VIDEO 2: Part 1, Part 2.
Thanks to Brian Nakamura and Edinah K. Gnang for an excellent job of videotaping.