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 ...

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 ...

Can you infer the simple rule behind a number sequence that spikes up and down like the beating of a heart? Our Insights problem this month is based on a sequence of integers which comes from Neil ...

For anyone who deals with number sequences, the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is the most important search engine in the world. It is the work of the British-Australian mathematician Neil ...

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 ...