Sequence Man, Neil Sloane

Fascinating new Erica Klarreich piece (interview) in Quanta on Neil Sloane and the OEIS, Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, which is now home to more than a quarter million number sequences contributed by mathematicians the world over:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150806-neil-sloane-oeis-interview/

Turns out that when Neil isn't curating (along with a set of editors) number sequences he's writing guidebooks about rock-climbing in New Jersey! Yet that is one of the less interesting of all the many great tidbits in the article.
[By the way, since my previous post was about math and music, worth noting that all the sequences in the OEIS can (as an option on the site) be put to music and played!]

Happy Birthday Neil Sloane and OEIS!

Wonderful Alex Bellos piece in The Guardian today, on Neil Sloane and the OEIS (Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) he founded. Fascinating reading:

http://tinyurl.com/n6wcev4

I was happy to learn of the Kolakoski sequence which combines a number sequence with self-reference (one of my favorite topics), and of which Bellos writes, "Mathematicians drool over this sequence."
 The OEIS has been around as a go-to resource for mathematicians of all stripes for 50 years now, and today includes some 250,000 number sequences, while still growing, according to the article, at a rate of about 40 new sequences each day! Some sequences can be quite creative of course, and open up interesting, difficult-to-solve questions.
Rutgers' Doron Zeilberger goes so far as to say that the OEIS has made Sloane the world's most influential mathematician!
Lots more in the article, including a video.

A Sequence Playground... +more P vs. NP

An encyclopedia of mathematical sequences... why not! "Math Trek" blog reports on an AT&T mathematician, Neil Sloane, who has been collecting/cataloguing math sequences for much of his life... to the joy and wonderment of various number-obsessives everywhere. As the post says, "he now has nearly 200,000 number sequences in a searchable online database [the OEIS --- Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences], and his personal obsession has become a treasure for the entire mathematical community":

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/61870/title/Math_Trek__The_pattern_collector

Meanwhile, RJ Lipton's latest post covering problems with the recent P ≠ NP proof at the one-week point is up:

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/the-p%E2%89%A0np-proof-is-one-week-old/

...It's all Greek to me (and I suspect to most of my readers)... but again, what is fascinating is just how much thoughtful/insightful discussion of the matter has already been generated at just the one-week-old stage! Congratulations to all involved! This is something the Web is ideally suited for.

...and here is Scott Aaronson's attempt (with lots of good additional links) to translate the discussion from Greek to say, Latin, for those of us who have wandered 'into the tent' a bit unprepared:

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=459