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Erdős–Bacon Number

23 points by markmassie 12y ago

ColinWright 12y ago
Depending what you count, my E-B number is 6. I'm actively working on reducing that, and looking to get a finite Sabbath number: http://erdosbaconsabbath.com/ http://erdosbaconsabbath.com/ It's all a bit silly ...
thebear 12y ago
Yay, my Erdos number is 2 and thus better than that of Richard Feynman. I have a paper with Erdos-1 mathematician Saharon Shelah. Unfortunately, my Bacon number is infinity. To look up your Erdos number, if any, go to https://files.oakland.edu/users/grossman/enp/Erdos1.html https://files.oakland.edu/users/grossman/enp/Erdos1.html
- crashandburn4 12y ago
  Just found out my Erdos number is 7 thanks to this [0] (it seems to be only mathematical papers so I had to input a co-author to find mine). Now to just get a bacon and sabbath number... [0] http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html
  - RBerenguel 12y ago
    Mine is 4. Now I only need to appear in a movie with Kevin Bacon
- waterlesscloud 12y ago
  My Bacon number is 3. Let's write a paper together and I'll film it!
Smaug123 12y ago
I have a lecturer who has an E-B number of 5 (Geoffrey Grimmett). Now I just need to appear in a film with him and write a paper with him.
kiliankoe 12y ago
I recently found out that my Math professor has an Erdos number of 2, there's got to a way to co-author something there in the far future!
chrismonsanto 12y ago
I'm fairly certain I have a finite Erdos number, but it sure is a pain to find it. Someone with more free time than I should make a list of famous contemporary computer scientists by research area and their Erdos number! It would be a lot of help. EDIT: it seems my computational geometry professor, Bernard Chazelle, has an E-B number of 5. Too bad I do not have any papers authored with him.
jimhefferon 12y ago
It is a stretch, but it is all in good fun: my bacon number is 3 (I played Tara O'Reilly's husband (uncredited) in Shout it Out) and my Erdos number is 3 (I co-wrote a paper for the TeX User's Group journal with Michael Doob). Total Erdos-Bacon number: 6
namenotrequired 12y ago
There is also the Sabbath number, with the same principle, but it's the distance musicians are from the band Black Sabbath, as they changed formation countless times. Together these three make up the Erdős Bacon Sabbath Number. Stephen Hawkin has the Erdős Bacon Sabbath Number of 8, one of the lowest known; he has the Erdős number of 4, Bacon number of 2 and Sabbath number of 2. Source: this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/pracht-van-priemgetallen-eeuwenlange-zoektocht/dp/9035138635/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/pracht-van-priemgetallen-eeuwenlange... (not an affiliate link) Edit: I didn't notice ColinWright's comment :)
gcr 12y ago
See also "An Algorithm for Erdos-Bacon Number Minimization" by Garrod, et al. in SIGBOVIK 2010, page 11: http://sigbovik.org/2010/proceedings.pdf http://sigbovik.org/2010/proceedings.pdf
martinralbrecht 12y ago
My Erdős–Bacon number is 6. Bacon number 3: I was in a film with Terence Donovan who has a Bacon number of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kKS14i3aCAk#t=134s https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kK... Erdős number 3: I wrote a paper with Gregor Leander who has an Erdős number of 2. I peaked.
ergoproxy 12y ago
My Erdős Number is 4: Me->Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy->Joseph E. Flaherty->David C. Arney->Paul Erdős For a time, it appeared to be 2, but Paul Erdős and the Erdős-1 mathematician with whom I collaborated ultimately withdrew their paper, because they found their results were similar to a previously published paper. I've also appeared on a local Philadelphia PA TV show with newscasters who interviewed Kevin Bacon. Not sure if this gives me a finite Bacon Number, since it was TV (not a movie) and it was non-fiction. If so, then I have the finite Erdős–Bacon Number of 6.

23 points by markmassie 12y ago

Depending what you count, my E-B number is 6. I'm actively working on reducing that, and looking to get a finite Sabbath number: http://erdosbaconsabbath.com/ http://erdosbaconsabbath.com/ It's all a bit silly ...

thebear 12y ago

Yay, my Erdos number is 2 and thus better than that of Richard Feynman. I have a paper with Erdos-1 mathematician Saharon Shelah. Unfortunately, my Bacon number is infinity. To look up your Erdos number, if any, go to https://files.oakland.edu/users/grossman/enp/Erdos1.html https://files.oakland.edu/users/grossman/enp/Erdos1.html

crashandburn4 12y ago
Just found out my Erdos number is 7 thanks to this [0] (it seems to be only mathematical papers so I had to input a co-author to find mine). Now to just get a bacon and sabbath number... [0] http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html
- RBerenguel 12y ago
  Mine is 4. Now I only need to appear in a movie with Kevin Bacon
waterlesscloud 12y ago
My Bacon number is 3. Let's write a paper together and I'll film it!

Smaug123 12y ago

I have a lecturer who has an E-B number of 5 (Geoffrey Grimmett). Now I just need to appear in a film with him and write a paper with him.

kiliankoe 12y ago

I recently found out that my Math professor has an Erdos number of 2, there's got to a way to co-author something there in the far future!

chrismonsanto 12y ago

I'm fairly certain I have a finite Erdos number, but it sure is a pain to find it. Someone with more free time than I should make a list of famous contemporary computer scientists by research area and their Erdos number! It would be a lot of help. EDIT: it seems my computational geometry professor, Bernard Chazelle, has an E-B number of 5. Too bad I do not have any papers authored with him.

jimhefferon 12y ago

It is a stretch, but it is all in good fun: my bacon number is 3 (I played Tara O'Reilly's husband (uncredited) in Shout it Out) and my Erdos number is 3 (I co-wrote a paper for the TeX User's Group journal with Michael Doob). Total Erdos-Bacon number: 6

namenotrequired 12y ago

There is also the Sabbath number, with the same principle, but it's the distance musicians are from the band Black Sabbath, as they changed formation countless times. Together these three make up the Erdős Bacon Sabbath Number. Stephen Hawkin has the Erdős Bacon Sabbath Number of 8, one of the lowest known; he has the Erdős number of 4, Bacon number of 2 and Sabbath number of 2. Source: this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/pracht-van-priemgetallen-eeuwenlange-zoektocht/dp/9035138635/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/pracht-van-priemgetallen-eeuwenlange... (not an affiliate link) Edit: I didn't notice ColinWright's comment :)

gcr 12y ago

See also "An Algorithm for Erdos-Bacon Number Minimization" by Garrod, et al. in SIGBOVIK 2010, page 11: http://sigbovik.org/2010/proceedings.pdf http://sigbovik.org/2010/proceedings.pdf

martinralbrecht 12y ago

My Erdős–Bacon number is 6. Bacon number 3: I was in a film with Terence Donovan who has a Bacon number of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kKS14i3aCAk#t=134s https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kK... Erdős number 3: I wrote a paper with Gregor Leander who has an Erdős number of 2. I peaked.

ergoproxy 12y ago

My Erdős Number is 4: Me->Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy->Joseph E. Flaherty->David C. Arney->Paul Erdős For a time, it appeared to be 2, but Paul Erdős and the Erdős-1 mathematician with whom I collaborated ultimately withdrew their paper, because they found their results were similar to a previously published paper. I've also appeared on a local Philadelphia PA TV show with newscasters who interviewed Kevin Bacon. Not sure if this gives me a finite Bacon Number, since it was TV (not a movie) and it was non-fiction. If so, then I have the finite Erdős–Bacon Number of 6.