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    collaborated with people who have an Erdős number of 2 (but not with Erdős or anyone with an Erdős number of 1) have an Erdős number of 3, and so forth. A person...
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  • the number, the closer a person is to Erdős and Bacon, which reflects a small world phenomenon in academia and entertainment. To have a defined Erdős–Bacon...
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    Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál [ˈɛrdøːʃ ˈpaːl]; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians...
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  • mathematics: Does the Erdős–Moser equation have solutions other than 11+21=31? (more unsolved problems in mathematics) In number theory, the Erdős–Moser equation...
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    Erdős number measures the "collaborative distance" between an author and Erdős. Thus, his direct co-authors have Erdős number one, theirs have number...
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  • In number theory, a positive integer k is said to be an Erdős–Woods number if it has the following property: there exists a positive integer a such that...
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    wonderful personality." Metropolis has an Erdős number of 2 and he enabled Richard Feynman to have an Erdős number of 3. Stochastics ENIAC Colossus computer...
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    Bacon number of an actor is the number of degrees of separation they have from Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game. This is an application of the Erdős number...
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  • their use in ancient Egyptian mathematics. The Erdős–Straus conjecture is one of many conjectures by Erdős, and one of many unsolved problems in mathematics...
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  • mathematician Paul Erdős and his various collaborators made many famous mathematical conjectures, over a wide field of subjects, and in many cases Erdős offered...
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