{"id":1425,"date":"2015-03-19T08:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2020-09-22T01:58:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:58:15","slug":"what-is-your-erds-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/what-is-your-erds-number\/","title":{"rendered":"What is your Erdös Number?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paul Erd\u00f6s<\/a> (1913-1996) is one of the most prolific mathmeticians. He wrote over 1500 papers in his lifetime and collaborated with over 500 people. As a tribute, his friends created the Erd\u00f6s number<\/a>, which is a tongue in cheek way of asking how well you are associated with the top mathematicians.<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/a>Erd\u00f6s himself has an Erd\u00f6s number of 0. A co-author of Erd\u00f6s has an Erd\u00f6s number of 1, if you have written a paper with one of those co-authors you have an Erd\u00f6s number of 2, and so on.<\/p>\n

I found out recently<\/a> that my Erd\u00f6s is 3. That’s not too bad. I can never get an Erd\u00f6s number of 1, but perhaps (one day) I might write a paper with somebody who has an Erd&ouml;s of 1, giving me anErd\u00f6s number of 2.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in finding out what your Erd\u00f6s number is, I found two very good web sites:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Erd\u00f6s Number Project at http:\/\/www.oakland.edu\/enp\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. The Microsoft Academic Search at http:\/\/academic.research.microsoft.com\/VisualExplorer#2019273&1112639<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you are interested in reading more about this fascinating man, and his life, I would highly recommend The Man Who Loved Only Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    Header Image: Erd\u00f6s Number (downloaded from Google 26 Nov 2013, labelled as free to reuse): URL https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Erdosnumber.png<\/a><\/p>\n

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    This post was originally published at the University of Nottingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Paul Erd\u00f6s (1913-1996) is one of the most prolific mathmeticians. He wrote over 1500 papers in his lifetime and collaborated with over 500 people. As a tribute, his friends created the Erd\u00f6s number, which is a tongue in cheek way of asking how well you are associated with the top mathematicians. Erd\u00f6s himself has an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}