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.

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Will you write a math paper with me? I'm game!

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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