3 ms·
Anyone here with an Erdős number less than 3? I have a 4, which is probably not going to change (I work in research engineering rather than research mathematics
by thearn4 10y ago
Anyone here with an Erdős number less than 3? I have a 4, which is probably not going to change (I work in research engineering rather than research mathematics these days).
- fharper1961 10y agoMy dad has a 2. Erdős stayed at my dad's house so that they could work together. The first morning at breakfast, Erdős asked my dad to butter his toast for him. My dad refused. That's why he doesn't have 1!
- Cyph0n 10y agoPoor choice in hindsight haha!
- chaoxu 10y agoI have 2, through Neil Calkin.
- jnordwick 10y agoBut do you have an Erdos-Bacon number, the true test of a polymath? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
- chubot 10y agoI admit I geeked out and calculated this a couple months ago, after I was credited on my first academic paper (my career is in programming) If you count video games, I have a Bacon number of 3 because I was credited on Tiger Woods 2003-2005 with an artist named Sylvain Doreau, who is credited on Shrek. John Lithgow was in Shrek and in Footloose with Kevin Bacon. My former coworker Li Zhang has an Erdos number of 2 and we worked together on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00133 https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00133 (with him doing a lot more work than me). So putting that together is an Erdos-Bacon number of 3 + 3 = 6.
- gvurrdon 10y agoYears ago I was first author on a paper with this chap, who gives his Erdös number as 4, which would presumably make mine 5: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-cortina-borja-2b98ab47 https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-cortina-borja-2b98ab47 Also, I was in a film with Donald Sutherland (even managing to get on screen at the same time) so I think that's a Bacon number of 2.
- zeroonetwothree 10y agoI only published one paper (which in undergrad... never got into research after that) but it got me a 5.
- williamstein 10y agoI have a 3, so at least I published with people that have a 2 (e.g., John Tate, Barry Mazur).
- Cyph0n 10y agoI currently have a 5 - I only have 1 conference paper - but once I publish with my advisor, I'll bump that down to a 4. The 2 levels below my advisor are both professors at my institution, so I can do better if I try. I'm in ECE btw, which is probably why it's not that great.
- wbhart 10y agoI have a 3, through Bruce Berndt. One used to be able to progress to a 2 without doing additional work, but nowadays that has become close to impossible.
- mailshanx 10y agoI have a 5 - i published in ocean engineering / statistical signal processing. You can use https://www.csauthors.net/distance/mandar-chitre/paul-erdos https://www.csauthors.net/distance/mandar-chitre/paul-erdos to find yours.