Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician.

[3] Sloane was born in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales, in 1939, moving to Cowes, Isle of Wight, England in 1946.

[4] He studied at Cornell University under Nick DeClaris, Frank Rosenblatt, Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967.

[5] His doctoral dissertation was titled Lengths of Cycle Times in Random Neural Networks.

[10] In 2008 he received the Mathematical Association of America David P. Robbins Prize, and in 2013 the George Pólya Award.