NeilSloane 2006-09-02 15:16:35 2006-09-18 15:00:45 Definition % this is the default PlanetMath preamble. as your knowledge % of TeX increases, you will probably want to edit this, but % it should be fine as is for beginners. % almost certainly you want these \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} % used for TeXing text within eps files %\usepackage{psfrag} % need this for including graphics (\includegraphics) %\usepackage{graphicx} % for neatly defining theorems and propositions %\usepackage{amsthm} % making logically defined graphics %\usepackage{xypic} % there are many more packages, add them here as you need them % define commands here Neil James Alexander Sloane is an American mathematician best known for the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Sloane received his \PMlinkescapetext{Ph.D.} in 1967 from Cornell University, for his dissertation on lengths of cycle times in random neural networks. Sloane did significant work for AT \& T Bell Labs on error-correcting codes. Sloane coauthored \PMlinkescapetext{\emph{Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups}} with John Horton Conway, giving him an \PMlinkname{Erd\H{o}s number}{ErdHosNumber} of 2.