These are questions that Neil Sloane, a mathematician of Highland Park, New Jersey, loves to ask. Sloane is the founder of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, a database of 362,765 (and ...

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences catalogues hundreds of thousands of integer sequences, and has been cited in thousands of research papers. The goal of this project is to discover new ...

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences catalogues hundreds of thousands of integer sequences, and has been cited in thousands of research papers. The goal of this project is to discover new ...

Neil Sloane is considered by some to be one of the most influential mathematicians of our time. That’s not because of any particular theorem the 75-year-old Welsh native has proved, though over the ...

When Neil Sloane was a young man, he started collecting objects he found beautiful. A common enough preoccupation perhaps, except for the particular objects Sloane chose: number sequences. CURIOUS ...

One of the curious properties of mathematics is its beauty. But exactly what mathematicians mean by beauty is hard to capture. Perhaps the most famous example is Euler’s relation, e iπ + 1 = 0, which ...