"The Cunctator" wrote
Huh. Just because one can't think of a reason that it would be of interest to have a list of mathematicians of Erdos Number 3 doesn't mean that noone can. Wikipedia ain't paper.
Trouble is: I have checked that my own Erdos number is at most 4. Knowing that it is exactly 4, rather than 3, is equivalent to knowing a huge amount about collaborative papers ... which is a needle-in-haystack search.
Charles
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That's the type of reasoning that I find convincing with respect why it would be a bad idea to try to do explicit Erdos number categories.
On 11/29/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
"The Cunctator" wrote
Huh. Just because one can't think of a reason that it would be of
interest
to have a list of mathematicians of Erdos Number 3 doesn't mean that
noone
can. Wikipedia ain't paper.
Trouble is: I have checked that my own Erdos number is at most 4. Knowing that it is exactly 4, rather than 3, is equivalent to knowing a huge amount about collaborative papers ... which is a needle-in-haystack search.
Charles
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On 11/30/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com
Trouble is: I have checked that my own Erdos number is at most 4. Knowing that it is exactly 4, rather than 3, is equivalent to knowing a huge amount about collaborative papers ... which is a needle-in-haystack search.
No, it's really easy actually. Go to Wikipedia and check out [[Category:Erdos number 2]]. If you've worked on a paper with any of the people in it, you're 3. Otherwise, you're 4.
:p
Steve
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"The Cunctator" wrote
Huh. Just because one can't think of a reason that it would be of interest to have a list of mathematicians of Erdos Number 3 doesn't mean that noone can. Wikipedia ain't paper.
Trouble is: I have checked that my own Erdos number is at most 4. Knowing that it is exactly 4, rather than 3, is equivalent to knowing a huge amount about collaborative papers ... which is a needle-in-haystack search.
What's your H-index?