``A handbook of Integer sequences fifty years later

DOI10.1007/S00283-023-10266-6MaRDI QIDQ6202769zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. J. A. Sloane

Publication date 27 February 2024

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03149

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61)

Abstract: Until 1973 there was no database of integer sequences. Someone coming across the sequence 1, 2, 4, 9, 21, 51, 127,... would have had no way of discovering that it had been studied since 1870 (today these are called the Motzkin numbers, and form entry A001006 in the database). Everything changed in 1973 with the publication of "A Handbook of Integer Sequences", which listed 2372 entries. This report describes the fifty-year evolution of the database from the "Handbook" to its present form as "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences" (or OEIS), which contains 360,000 entries, receives a million visits a day, and has been cited 10,000 times, often with a comment saying "discovered thanks to the OEIS".

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