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Erdős Number

by freeCandy on 5/16/23, 6:16 AM with 2 comments

• by fjfaase on 5/16/23, 7:01 AM

  Two of my teachers had Erdös nummer 2. I got a paper submitted that was a generalization of a technical report written by one of them. If I had asked him to be my co-author, instead of asking to review it before submission, I would have had Erdös nummer 3. Now I have infinity. I only discovered about Erdös much later after I wrote the paper.

• by defrost on 5/16/23, 7:08 AM

  Like J.G I also have an Erdős-Bacon number

  > I have an Erdős-Bacon number of six (having written a paper with Shing-Tung Yau and appeared in the film Windrider with Nicole Kidman) [1].

  [1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.gauntlett