Anyone here have an Erdos Number?

Question

If I get the paper I am working on published, I'll have an Erdos number of 4.

Answer 1

I missed 2 opportunities for Erdos numbers. Actually, i

really don't regret them as much as others might. The first

chance came when my professor and friend said to me

one day, " I'm picking up Erdos at the airport today so

why don't you come along?" I said, "Oh , i think i'll pass but

thanks ." Well, if you meet him he may want to write a paper with you". I really didn't feel up to that so i said, " No, i

guess i''ll stay here, i have some personal things to take care of anyway." I didn't feel ready to write with Paul Erdos if

you know what i mean. So there went Erdos number one.

Erdos two went out the window in the following manner:

My professor and still friend had met Erdos at the airport

and they had written three papers together after a period

of several years and he had acquired his Erdos 1/3. He said to

me one day at a cafe, "I would like you to work on this

project and we'll publish it, otherwise i'll give it to one of my

graduate students to help me with it." I hadn't the heart to

say that it wasn't motivating enough and somehow wriggled

out of it . Yet, truly i wasn't fond of the idea put forth to

use a certain technique for this investigation and i stuck to

that and passed by another Erdos # but still with no regrets.

Answer 2

please read ALL the way to the end:



The Erdos number is the number of "hops" needed to connect the author of a paper with the prolific late mathematician Paul Erdos. An author's Erdos number is 1 if he has co-authored a paper with Erdos, 2 if he has co-authored a paper with someone who has co-authored a paper with Erdos, etc. (Hoffman 1998, p. 13).



Erdos wrote papers with a total of 509 coauthors, meaning 509 people have Erdos number 1.



Form an undirected graph where the vertices are academics, and an edge

connects academic X to academic Y if X has written a paper with Y .

The Erdos number of X is the length of the shortest path in this graph

connecting X with Erdos.



Erdos has Erdos number 0. Co-authors of Erdos have Erdos number 1.

Einstein has Erdos number 2, since he wrote a paper with Ernst Straus,

and Straus wrote many papers with Erdos.



The Extended Erdos Number applies to co-authors of Erdos. For People

who have authored more than one paper with Erdos, their Erdos number

is defined to be 1/# papers-co-authored. Ron Graham has the smallest,

non-zero, Erdos number.



this means that anyone on the planet can have an erdos # of 6 if they publish. but some of us can be lucky enough to get closer like a 2 heh heh heh heh.... except i have no plans of publishing

Answer 3

I've never published with a coauthor, so no.



On the other hand, the late Arnold Ross once gave Erdos a job, and also once gave me a job. :)

Answer 4

No, but does this mean when you get your 4, I will be a 5?

Answer 5

I know a guy who has a 2nd degree Kevin Bacon number

Answer 6

good luck

no i don't have any article yet,

Answer 7

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