My Erdős number
A person's Erdős number
is 1 if they have coauthored a paper with Erdős, 2 if they have
coauthored a paper with someone whose Erdős number is 1, and so forth.
I list below my Erdős number, as well as my number for some other famous
scientists.
- Albert Einstein (Nobel Prize 1921):
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My Einstein number is 4.
(My thesis advisor has an Einstein number of 2, through his thesis advisor.
And counting an unpublished preprint [by other authors] would reduce my number
to 3.)
- Michael Atiyah (Fields Medal 1966):
- My Atiyah number is 4.
- Freeman Dyson (Wolf Prize 1981):
- My Dyson number is 4.
- Niels Bohr (Nobel Prize 1922):
- My Bohr number is 3.
- Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize 1965):
- My Feynman number is 3.
- Eugene Wigner (Nobel Prize 1963):
- My Wigner number is 3.
- Ed Witten (Fields Medal 1990):
- My Witten number is 3.
- Paul Erdős (Wolf Prize 1983/1984):
- My Erdős number is 3.
- Stephen Hawking (Wolf Prize 1988):
- My Hawking number is 2.
- Roger Penrose (Wolf Prize 1988):
- My Penrose number is 2.
- John Wheeler (Wolf Prize 1997):
- My Wheeler number is 2.
- Paul Davies (Templeton Prize 1995):
- My Davies number is 1.
- George Ellis (Templeton Prize 2004):
- My Ellis number is 1.
- Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Prize 1999):
- My 't Hooft number is 1.
(The Collaboration Distance calculator at MathSciNet incorrectly gives my
Erdős number as 4.)