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It's still easy enough to get a number of the first kind of 2, there are hundreds of active mathematicians with EN=1. You need to find one who shares an intere
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
It's still easy enough to get a number of the first kind of 2, there are hundreds of active mathematicians with EN=1. You need to find one who shares an interest and then publish something serious with them.
Ditto the type 2. If we found something that was worth getting into a journal at least you'd get EN(2)=4.
- cperciva 16y agothere are hundreds of active mathematicians with EN=1 True, but the ones who are still active are generally quite senior, and wouldn't be interested in working with a nobody like me.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoDepends (almost) entirely on what you're choosing to do. If you find something in the area of interest of one of them, then make a substantial contribution, then ask if they can help tidy of the details, it's plausible that it could happen. You'd need to make it a goal, and it's not clear that it's really worth it. John Brillhart, Richard Guy, Robin Wilson, Peter Winkler and Ron Graham all come to mind, mind you'd need time, effort, math and social engineering.
- cperciva 16y agoThat's way too much work to do just to reduce my Erdos number. :-)
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoAbsolutely. Not impossible, just not really worth the effort.