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Erdős number
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A low Erdos number is a status symbol among 20th century mathematicians and is similar to the 6-degrees-of-separation concept.
Let $e(p)$ be the Erdos number of person $p$ Your Erdos number is
- 0 if you are Paul Erdos
- $\min\{e(x) \vert x\in X\} + 1$ where $X$ is the set of all persons you have authored a paper with.
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This is version 9 of Erdős number, born on 2002-11-29, modified 2006-10-06.
Object id is 3629, canonical name is ErdoesNumber.
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Classification:
| AMS MSC: | 01A60 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: 20th century) |
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