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"The OEIS Changed My Life"

In honor of its 50th birthday and its founder Neil Sloane's 75th, Alex Bellos devotes his Guardian column to a celebration of the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Bellos introduces readers to a handful of Sloane's favorite sequences and quotes a fellow mathematician declaring Sloane among the greats. Says Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers University):

Neil did not prove Fermat’s Last Theorem, nor did he prove the Poincaré Conjecture, nevertheless, the impact of [the OEIS] on today’s (and tomorrow’s!) mathematical research far surpasses that of any living mathematician.

Read the story.

Start Date: 
Friday, October 24, 2014