Neil J. A. Sloane: Press Clippings
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The On-Line
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
was mentioned on the TV program
Numb3rs, May 05 2006.
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Vincenzo Origlio,
L'Enciclopedia delle sequenze intere,
Biblioteche Oggi,
January-February 2006, pp. 41-45.
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Alonso Del Arte, Mathematician reaches 100k milestone of
online integer archive, The South End
(Wayne State University
Newspaper), Nov 11, 2004
[Cached copy (black and white)]
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Antii Karttunen, Tuhansien
lukujonojen aarreaitta (Finnish)
[A treasure-trove of thousands of integer sequences],
Helsingin Sanomat, Science & Nature section, page D1, Tuesday, November 9 2004.
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Heather Catchpole,
Exploring
the number jungle online
- Story on the Australian Broadsacting Commission (ABC)
"News in Science"
website about me, Oct 05, 2004
[Cached copy]
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There's a nice discussion of the On-Line Encyclopedia
of Integer Sequences in the review in MathSciNet
by Christian Krattenthaler of my article about the database - see
Review MR1992789 (2004).
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The Italian monthly magazine for software developers,
Dev.
has a piece about the OEIS in the Feb 2003 issue, No. 104, on page 72.
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A 1995 paper of mine on
minimal-energy
sphere packings
has been getting publicity recently because it seems
that these packings actually turn out to be useful.
Here's one write-up of the story, from
SpaceDaily for August 21, 2003.
[Cached copy]
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The On-Line
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences was
listed by PC Magazine
on May 27 2003 in its list of search engines.
For the online version click
here
and click the sidebar on Niche Search.
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The On-Line
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences was
featured in Ivars Peterson's MathTrek in Science News Online for May 17, 2003.
- Heinrich Hemme,
Die
Leidenschaft eines Zahlenreihen-Sammlers
[The
Passion of a Collector of Number Sequences],
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 9, 2001.
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The On-Line
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences was
one of Science magazine's Hot Picks for
15 May 1998.
- Robert Calderbank's interview
with me appeared in the IEEE
Information Theory Society Newsletter
for December 1997.
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Review by J. M. Borwein and R. M. Corless
in SIAM Review (Vol. 38, 1996, pp. 333-337)
of
The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
- American Scientist, Vol. 84, January-February 1996,
"A question of numbers", by Brian Hayes, pp. 10-14,
talks about
The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
and the
sequence servers.
- Omni, Fall, 1995, "Looking for
the sweet spot in n-dimensional space", pp. 54-61, by Kathleen Stein.
An article about Dave Doehlert and me, and our work on Design
of Experiments.
[The link is to a color jpeg file of one of the illustrations
in the article. The photos were taken by Peter Liepke.]
- Sunday Star Ledger, June 18, 1995, "Count
him in: Bell expert tracks trends in numbers",
pp. 1, 18, by Kitta MacPherson.
- Science News,
May 20, 1995, "Next number, please", p. 319.
- Science News, March 4, 1995,
"The Codemart catalog: arranging points on a sphere
for fun and profit", pp. 140, 142, by Ivars Peterson.
[The link is to an extract from the beginning of the article.]
- Newsweek,
January 9, 1995, "Your lucky number?",
p. 10, by Carla Koehl and Jennifer Tanaka.
The sequence servers have also been mentioned in many other places,
for example Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Nov. 11, 1995, p. 12;
Internet World, Oct. 1994, p. 17;
The Mathematica Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 3, Summer 1994, p. 30.
- What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, by Barry Cipra,
"Straightening out nonlinear codes", pp. 37-40, Americam Mathematical Society,
Providence, PI, 1994.
- Pour La Science, Septembre, 1994,
"Dictionnaire de suites", p. 25.
- Science, July 22, 1994,
"Mathematicians get an on-line fingerprint file",
p. 473, by Barry Cipra.
- For All Practical Purposes: Introduction to Contemporary
Mathematics, "Spotlight 10.2: Neil Sloane",
W. H. Freeman, NY, 3rd edition, 1994, pp. 308-309.
- Business Week, June 20, 1994, "Suddenly, number theory
makes sense to industry", pp. 172-174, by Fred Guterl.
- Science, October 29, 1993, "Nonlinear codes straighten up -
and get to work", pp. 658-659, by Barry Cipra.
- Discover, October, 1990, "Math in a Million Dimensions", pp. 58-66,
by David Berreby.
- Omni, September, 1989, "Interview: Neil Sloane"
pp. 78-83 and 96-101, by Anthony Liversidge.
- C. & E. News, February 29, 1988, pp. 22 ff., esp. p. 24,
"Interest Grows in Hadamard Transforms for Spectroscopy", by Stephen
C. Stinson.
- Montreal Gazette, Feb. 21, 1987 p. J7,
"Among sequence buffs, this man's No 1: (Neil Sloane)".
- New York Times,
Tuesday, January 27, 1987, front page of Science Tuesday section,
"In a
`random world', he collects patterns", by James Gleick. (The picture shows an extract from the first page, with the error in the third example
corrected in red.)
- Forbes, December 29, 1986, "The nth dimension",
pp. 94-95, by William Baldwin.
- Scientific American, April, 1974,
Review of ``A Handbook of Integer Sequences'', pp. 125-126,
by Philip Morrison.
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