By
N. Sloane, AT&T Bell Labs
Simon Plouffe, Simon Fraser University
Description
This encyclopedia contains more than 5000 integer sequences, over half of which have never before been catalogued. Because the sequences
are presented in the most natural form, and arranged for easy reference, this book is easier to use than the authors earlier classic
A Handbook of Integer Sequences.
The Encyclopedia gives the name, mathematical description, and citations to literature
for each sequence. Following sequences of particular interest, thereare essays on their origins, uses, and connections to related sequences
(all cross-referenced). A valuable new feature to this text is the inclusion of a number of interesting diagrams and illustrations related
to selected sequences.
The initial chapters are both amusing and enlightening. They serve as a delightful introduction to the subject
and a short course on how to identify and work with integer sequences. This encyclopedia brings Sloanes ground-breaking
Handbook
up to date, more than doubling its size, and linking both the old and the new material to an extensive bibliography (over 25 pages long),
of current and classic references. An index to all the sequences in the book is also available separately on disk in Macintosh and IBM
formats.
Audience:
Those professionals and researchers in all areas of applied and theoretical science and engineering who need to identify and work with
integer sequences, including amateurs and recreational mathematics enthusiasts, and scienceand mathematics libraries. Of interest to
those working in: number theory, combinatronics, graph theory, discrete mathematics, computer science, algebra, geometry, communications,
information theory, physics, chemistry, statistics, botany, and zoology.
