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Many people - a good chunk of chemists are connected through Roald Hoffmann, whose Erdos number is 6. The world is small. Fun fact - my Stalin number is 4.
by HarryHirsch 3y ago
Many people - a good chunk of chemists are connected through Roald Hoffmann, whose Erdos number is 6.
The world is small. Fun fact - my Stalin number is 4.
- l33t7332273 3y agoWhat is a Stalin number? Did he Publish papers?
- HarryHirsch 3y agoA person's Stalin number is how many encounters is one away from Stalin. I worked with a person whose grandfather was a close associate of Tito, who had met Stalin in person.
- mcmoor 3y agoEncounter is too small for notability. We all have six degree of separation after all. Erdos number is specifically publishing paper, which is much harder. Just like its variants like Bacon number for producing films.
- Aerbil313 3y agoThat's a myth. In the original experiment, AFAIR, while the average distance between any two people in the world was 6 persons, the number of successfully completed chains of connection was very small[1]. 1: https://www.hyphanet.org/assets/papers/lic.pdf https://www.hyphanet.org/assets/papers/lic.pdf
- jltsiren 3y agoEncounters make this far too easy. (Though it also helps that I'm from Finland.) Path 1: When I was a kid, Raisa Gorbacheva visited our school. I didn't talk to her personally, but some people I knew did. Due to her position, I'm fairly sure she knew many people who knew Stalin. Path 2: Because I was involved in student politics, I know some Finnish politicans and have met many more. Some of them must have met Putin, but I'm not completely sure who. Putin's grandfather Spiridon Putin was a chef for both Lenin and Stalin. Path 3: I have mutual friends with former Finnish politician Erkki Tuomioja. His grandmother was Hella Wuolijoki, who was likely a Soviet spy, was married for a while to a personal friend of Lenin, and claimed to have met Stalin in the 1930s.
- imjonse 3y agoHe was more in the perish than the publish business.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoI have family in Georgia so I suppose it’s not so surprising that my Stalin number is 3. Same as my Erdos number :)
- stoolpigeon 3y agoI never thought about this - I'm aware of Bacon and the mathematicians - but not other famous people. This is cool - my Winston Churchill number is 3.