Erdos number of 3! Do you allow people to kiss your ring? :)
Bill
On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Bill Holt asked:
>
>> Is the "erdos" part of the list address associated with the famous
>> Hungarian (?) mathematician or some sort of computerish acronym, or
>> something else?
>
> The "erdos" in the name of the server is indeed in reference to the
> late Paul Erdos. He visited Louisville quite a few times, and worked
> with several people on the faculty.
>
> A previous posting referred to the Erdos number of mathematicians.
> This is documented by The Erdos Number Project [1]. People who wrote a
> research paper with Erdos have an Erdos number of 1. (There are at
> least two on the present UofL faculty with Erdos number of 1.) Those
> who have written a paper with someone having Erdos number 1 are two
> hops away from Erdos, and have an Erdos number of 2, and so forth.
> Since Erdos was so prolific, a huge number of people are listed at
> levels 1 and 2. By the time you get to an Erdos number of 3, there are
> too many people to count. (My Erdos number is 3, for example.)
>
>
> [1] <http://www.oakland.edu/enp/index.html>
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