Jack Campin wrote: > > After meeting Richard Robinson at the Newcastleton festival the > weekend before last and playing a few tunes in the same sessions > (there can't have been many Scottish tune sessions featuring two > clarinets before) it occurred to me that probably most people on > this list have played with somebody else on it at least once. > > In mathematics and computer science, this sort of relationship is > measured by your "Erdos number". Paul Erdos co-authored papers > with a phenomenal number of people. Erdos has Erdos number 0. > If you co-authored a paper with Erdos, you have Erdos number 1. > Your Erdos number is 1 + the minimal Erdos number of anyone you > co-authored a paper with. > > In the ABC world, Chris Walshaw is the obvious zero point. > > I've played with Julian Goodacre who has played with Chris, so > I have a Walshaw number of 2. That means Wil Macaulay and > Richard Robinson both have Walshaw numbers no higher than 3, but > perhaps they're lower by some other path. > > Anyone else know theirs? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 > <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, > Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". > ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
I never met Paul Erdos, but the paper he wrote ALONE on minimization of optical aberations in a three element system is fantastic. I have a fairly recent biography of him as 'The Man Who Loved Numbers'. Bruce Olson Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, and broadside ballads at Bruce Olson's website <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a> To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
